and it s half time for the last round of premier league games manchester city trail aston villa and liverpool equalise against wolves if it stays like that city will be champions. welcome to bbc news. in the last few minutes, a deadline has passed for civil servants who want to object to being named in sue gray s partygate report to respond a move which could delay publication. this morning, the education secretary, nadhim zahawi, defended a meeting which took place last month between ms gray and borisjohnson insisting it would not have influenced the outcome of the inquiry. our political correspondentjonathan blake has the latest. borisjohnson, the prime minister whose political fate could rest on the findings of a report by the senior civil servant sue gray. weeks ago, the two held a meeting who called it, what was discussed depends on who you ask. one cabinet minister says the row does not matter sue gray has complete control over her inquiry, and the prime m