The Tories' Campaign for Civil Service Impartiality

Sue Gray was no longer head of the propriety in ethics group in Cabinet office. She left that job to go to Northern Ireland and then her actual job was to be a second permanent secretary in the Cabinet office. So she was actually just sort of, you know, if you like brought back by Simon Case to do the investigation to party gate when he had to recuse himself because it was reported that some of the parties happened in Simon Case's outer office. And so I think there's an issue on timing. The real sort of issue is less the report but rather something that Boris Johnson allies are determined to be able to discredit Sue Gray's report. But they're quite keen to