A member of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s cabinet said he was “absolutely confident” no administration officials tried to have the report on the so-called Partygate scandal watered down before its publication last week.
Brandon Lewis, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, said it was well known that pressure tactics wouldn’t work on Sue Gray, the senior civil servant who prepared the report on social gatherings by government members that violated Covid lockdown rules.
“I don’t believe that anybody would be able to pressure Sue Gray into putting any kind of report out that she wasn’t comfortable was the full and proper report,” he said on Sky News.
