Explosive photos that will show Boris Johnson “lied to the Commons and possibly the cops” will be published in the next 48 hours, Dominic Cummings has claimed.
The vengeful former adviser to the Prime Minister suggested pictures of the lockdown parties in Downing Street could be emerge separately from the Sue Gray report into the events.
The pictures could come from disgruntled junior staff in Downing Street who are reportedly furious at being fined by the Met police while the Tory leader has had one fixed penalty notice.
The long-awaited report into ‘ Partygate ’ conducted by senior civil servant Sue Gray is now expected to be published on Tuesday or Wednesday and could also include photographs of events.
The move came as Downing Street confirmed that they organised the controversial meeting between the PM and the senior civil servant.
Downing Street said Johnson met with Sue Gray about the “timings and publication process” in relation to her report into Downing Street lockdown parties.
Asked why No 10 officials had suggested a meeting, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “There were reports, public reports, that the (Metropolitan Police’s) Hillman investigation might be coming to a conclusion, so it was discussed that it might be useful to give an overview of what Sue Gray and her team were planning in regards to publication and timings – the publication following the conclusion of the report.
“I think those discussions had taken place at official level already.”
Gray handed more than 300 images to Scotland Yard from her probe.
Cummings, referring to photographic evidence held by officials, said: “One of the consequences is that I expect photos of the PM will emerge very quickly, within the next 24-48 hours.”
In his latest blog, the former director of communications in Downing Street turned again on his former boss who sacked him in November 2020, as he raised the spectre of pictures emerging.
He wrote: “Any reasonable person looking at some of these photos will only be able to conclude that the PM obviously lied to the Commons, and possibly to the cops, and there is no reasonable story for how others were fined for event X but not him.”
The former Vote Leave chief also criticised the Met Police for failing to investigate the PM for every event he attended - when others at them received fines.
Cummings asked: “How has he not been fined more? It’s not because the PM’s presence is in doubt: multiple officials have told the cops he was at X or Y event that the cops have defined ‘unlawful’ and given the cops photos, so the cops know he was there. Part of the reason is that for some events the police simply have not investigated, haven’t asked him about X or Y.”
The bitter former aide also claimed No 10 was in deep chaos with the PM undermining his chief of staff Steve Barclay, top officials briefing against one another and the political team “drowning their sorrows” in the pub.
Downing Street insiders suggested the PM was “quite happy” for images to be published to dispel the public belief that Downing Street was “like Ibiza on a Saturday night”.
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