the police have famously said that they will only investigate if the cabinet office, in other words, a branch of government, tells them that they should investigate. presumably the police are waiting for sue gray s report as well. marc roche, do you have any hope that the affairjohnson will be resolved in the coming week? well, no because i think, as isabel said, that this official report will be a whitewash. i think all these stories about bullying byjohnson s people of hostile conservative mps have fizzled out, but the fact is that borisjohnson, whether. if he has not lied to parliament because then he will have to go, will survive this, but he will be a lame duck prime minister, like theresa may, john major and to a certain extent, thatcher, in the last year of her mandate.