private secretary and it talks about warning borisjohnson about the impact of saying that all rules and guidance had been followed in his remarks to the commons. he suggested that was taken out of his statement by borisjohnson and it sounds like it was. the problem for the prime minister as it was then put back into another answer that he gave to a labour mp. so i suspect he will raise questions about that. part of boris johnson s defence raise questions about that. part of borisjohnson s defence this afternoon is going to be that he was told by his assistants that all rules had been followed. there is evidence for that in the documents we have seen. there are questionnaires that were filled out for sue gray, the civil servant looking into all of this where some of his communications team say they do think the guidance, sorry, that the rules were followed at all times although the draw a distinction with the two metre social distancing guidance. so there is some evidence that will supp
of booster that we talked i about, why can t we alljust get on side? having said that, they don t like uncertainty, deliveringl an 80 seat majority, - i think people thought, at least this is over for a while. it will be a stable period. even if we do not like everything about it, i there will be some political stability, and that is why. this has thrown that - into sharp relief and i think there are two things going on here. - there is the one which is - boris johnson and parliament and his own mps, remember we have got local elections l coming up in may when he will have to face the country - and then we really will know whether all this stuff that i marc has been writing - about and others is actually a political liability or not. the unusual thing i suppose about scandals these days, isabel, is that they are not just a case of allegations and he said, she said and the other side denies it. there is evidence and there is durable evidence and technology is coming into play in this st
on whether or not the prime minister knew about parties and lied about parties. indeed, and the guardian is excitedly reporting an e mail that was sent warning borisjohnson not to hold this party, warning him against the party in question, and that has been made available to sue gray and so much of what happens now, the factions and the conspiracies and the plots, happens on whatsapp groups and it happens on signal and it happens through e mail. the difficulty is, though, that sue gray has no powers to call for evidence, so she is rather dependent on people forwarding her evidence and this is being done rather selectively, it seems to me. one of these notorious parties was given in honour of the departure of a head of communications who went on to be deputy editor of the sun, where you would assume a key news sense would prevail, but unaccountably it has not reported or indeed published any of the e mails connected with his own farewell party. so, yes, there is evidence, but getting ho