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Boris Johnson news – live: No 10 denies details were edited from Sue Gray report
Boris Johnson faces mounting pressure over Sue Gray’s findings, with dozens of Tory MPs calling for him to quit

Andy Gregory
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Downing Street flat party were removed from Sue Gray’s Partygate investigation.

Senior members of Boris Johnson’s team are alleged to have put pressure on the civil servant to remove certain details and names from her report into coronavirus rule-breaking, with the 15 people finally named in the document only half the number initially told they would feature, according to the Sunday Times.



A Whitehall source told the paper: “On Tuesday night, one last attempt was made to persuade her to omit names from the report, but she made it plain to them the only way that was going to happen was if they issued her with an instruction.”

It was also alleged that Mr Johnson’s chief-of-staff Steve Barclay “tweaked” details about the party in the PM’s flat on the eve of publication.

But Cabinet Office sources rejected claims the report was edited due to pressure, while a No 10 source denied all allegations, saying: “It is untrue that anyone on the political side saw anything in advance or sought to influence it.”


No 10 denies details were edited from Sue Gray report

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Brandon Lewis plays down threat of no confidence vote in Boris Johnson
Our political correspondent Ashley Cowburn has more details on the Northern Ireland secretary’s insistence this morning that Boris Johnson will not face a no confidence vote:


Brandon Lewis plays down threat of no confidence vote in Boris Johnson
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Andy Gregory29 May 2022 12:45
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Tories have ‘massive identity problem’, former leader says
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have given the Tories a “massive identity problem” by raising rather than cutting taxes, a former party leader has said.

Iain Duncan Smith told The Observer that, rather than impose a windfall tax, the chancellor should have cut taxes for middle and lower earners.

“He had the headroom not to do a windfall tax,” Sir Iain said. “Getting growth going is the priority. We have to avoid recession and to do that we have to lower taxes and get people spending.

“Conservatives believe in lower taxes, leaving people with more of their own money because they make the best choices. Unless we get back to this approach and cut taxes in the autumn budget we are in real trouble.”

The Tories now risk being seen as a high tax, big state party after also breaking their manifesto pledge with a national insurance hike, he reportedly said, adding: “I don’t just think we have a bit of an identity problem, we have a massive identity problem.”