Cabinet minister Liz Truss has led a defence of Boris Johnson by urging MPs to wait for Scotland Yard’s findings on “Partygate” rather than moving against him after a top civil servant’s report into the scandal.
With Westminster braced for Sue Gray to deliver her report into the series of gatherings in Downing Street, possibly as early as today, the Foreign Secretary issued the plea as some Tory MPs were considering sending in letters of no confidence in the Prime Minister. Ministers have for days urged Tory backbenchers to wait for the Gray report before deciding whether to act against Mr Johnson.
