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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Toby Helm Political editor

No 10 staff have swipe card data logged in probe of ‘partygate’

10 Downing Street
‘This is the proof of who was where, how many people were inside the building at any one time,’ said a source who knows Sue Gray. Photograph: Rob Pinney/Getty Images

The senior civil servant investigating allegations of at least nine lockdown-breaking parties at Downing Street has been given access to a detailed log of staff movements in and out of the building from security data including swipecards.

Whitehall figures say the inquiry by Sue Gray – who is expected to publish a report of about 25 pages this week – has been “forensic”, looking in “granular detail” at who was in the building for social gatherings, some of which went on into the early hours, and the precise timings of their arrivals and departures.

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