Three senior civil servants lobbied Sue Gray not to publish some names of those attending lockdown parties, it was claimed today.
In response, the Whitehall enforcer, who was assembling her Partygate probe report, allegedly told them to “instruct” her to make the changes – signalling publicly that she opposed them, the Sunday Times reported.
The aides were named by the paper as permanent secretary Samantha Jones, Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, and Alex Chisholm, the permanent secretary in the Cabinet Office.
