Downing Street accused of trying to ‘dilute’ Sue Gray’s Partygate report

Sources told the Sunday Times there were also demands to change how so-called ‘Abba party’ was reported. Photograph: Reuters

Downing Street officials have been accused of attempting to dilute Sue Gray’s report into the Partygate scandal, with demands to anonymise staff who broke coronavirus rules and to change how the so-called “Abba party” was reported.

Partial drafts of the findings were allegedly circulating in No 10 the day before the final report was handed over on Wednesday, the Sunday Times reported.