the majority, vote for it. let s remember, borisjohnson has a comfortable majority here in the house of commons, but perhaps where the concern was was around some mps who have not even called for the prime minister to go, backing the idea of him being subject to further investigation or even abstaining on the idea of that further investigation. what the government amendment here will seek to do is to say look, let s wait until the current investigations that are ongoing, let s remember there is a met police investigation, a report are still due from the senior civil servant to sue gray into what exactly happened in downing street, and other government buildings, while covid is one place, essentially the government motion says let s wait until those two bodies have back, we have all those facts and then let s revisit the issue and talk about whether that inquiry from the privileges committee in the house of commons should happen. 0f committee in the house of commons should happen. of co
is finished, and the civil servant sue gray s report into government lockdown parties has been published. tory mps will be ordered to back this delay. i m confident that when the prime minister said he was assured that no rules were broken, i m sure that is the case. i don t think that constitutes misleading parliament by any means. but i do think all of this comes back to, what sensible person would want to jump the gun rather than wait for the metropolitan police investigation and that sue gray report? it means after the police and sue gray have finished investigating, mps will then get the vote on whether the prime minister should be investigated again over whether he misled mps. this investigation should take place now, and we are absolutely clear about that. why? because it should be fairly straightforward. the prime minister should come clean with the public. while this means borisjohnson has staved off another investigation for now, mps could still vote for one in future. all th
is still going on. but it s not known when sue gray, the senior civil servant in charge, will release her findings. our deputy political editor, vicki young, considers the political fallout of the last few weeks and months. it s been a disastrous few months for the prime minister, and he stood here today accused of deception, of treating the british people with contempt. some on his own side think this could be a tipping point that leads to his downfall, but this is a man who s recovered from setbacks before, and cabinet colleagues are rallying round. i think it s right, as he was saying today in the house of commons, that sue gray is given the time to conduct that investigation, there ll be a full accounting, the prime minister will come back to the commons, that s the right way to handle this. and sue gray is a senior civil servant who spent years in whitehall as the head of propriety and ethics. she ll be investigating a long list of allegations that covid rules were broken in downi
him and felt genuine rage about exact what was going on in downing street during lockdown, during that period of emergency in such pain for many, many millions of people. second of all, when it comes to his party, those people who have the power, if they so choose, to usher him out of office, outside of a normal general election, for many conservative mps, the question is not whether status quo can be allowed to continue, it is how and when the status quo can be called to an end. now, it is important to say there are still mps who think boris johnson can scrape through this. there are mps who believe there could be some comfort for him in the technicality or the formal verdict of the senior civil servant to sue gray, who will report on exactly what happened in the next ten days or so. but in a funny way, the particularities of this party, the particularities of this party, the particularities of this party, the particularities of the various shenanigans that may or may not have happene