A stay of execution or death by a thousand cuts? In a statement released this morning, the Metropolitan Police has asked that “minimal reference” to allegedly lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street be made in the Sue Gray report.
This leaves the Cabinet Office with two choices. First, to publish a partial report, lacking in the key details which drove its very inception. This leads to the inevitable question, what is the point of publishing a half-baked report where the most egregious offences have been censored? The other option is to postpone publication until after the Met investigation is complete.
