“Overwhelming” pour The Guardian. “Disappointing” according to The Daily Telegraph. But published, finally, after weeks and months of waiting. The final report of the administrative inquiry into the series of parties organized in Downing Street during the 2020 and 2021 confinements was submitted to Boris Johnson on Wednesday May 25, before being communicated to the general public in stride.
Throughout the 37-page document, senior civil servant Sue Gray describes in detail the unfolding of fifteen events, “including nine in which Boris Johnson took part”precise The Times. The people present, the departure times, the text messages exchanged: it’s all there. Or almost. But in his conclusions, Gray “seems to be holding his punches, all wrapped up in annoying turns of phrase”.
Most of the criticisms had already been known since the end of January, recalls the conservative daily. At the time, a first stage point already deplored “leadership failures in Downing Street” et “a behavior around these events that is difficult to justify”. This definitive document “doesn’t tell us much more”