No one who knows Boris Johnson’s reputation accepts that his meeting with Sue Gray, the senior civil servant investigating his Partygate shenanigans, was about “process.”
Johnson, a political shyster to his fingertips, would never have let the chance pass to try to steer the report into the long grass.
It has been widely reported that he has suggested there is no pressing reason for Sue Gray to even publish her report, with so much already established and in the public domain.