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No 10 has insisted the inquiry being carried out by senior official Sue Gray into gatherings across Whitehall during Covid-19 restrictions is independent.
Gray’s investigation has consistently been described as “independent” despite her being a senior civil servant.
A spokesman for the prime minister said:
It is for that inquiry, that team, to establish the facts, we’ve said before … it’s an independent investigation team, I think we’ve set that out from the start.
I was campaigning for a range of different things for my constituents, particularly my constituents will remember my campaign on link road.
There were some very dicey votes for the government and I was campaigning to receive government funding, and of course one of the tactics used to make sure I fell into line on some of the Brexit rebellions was to threaten the withholding of money to pay for an investigation into whether or not this link road would have been built.
