like many of you we've been waiting for the much anticipated sue gray report into the recent partygate scandal until friday it was thought the report was going to be the thing to finally topple johnson the silver bullet to compound the litany of calls for his resignation but fortunately for the prime minister a last-minute intervention by the metropolitan police has changed everything so in this video we're going to be explaining the report and asking whether johnson might just have been saved by the police but before we get into it if you want to remember the parties we weren't invited to check out the number NUMBER_TOKEN party's tour shirt and posters and NUMBER_TOKEN goes to the national emergency trust covert appeal the link is in the description below now there's a lot going on here so you're going to need a bit of context the investigation into downing street parties was launched on december the NUMBER_TOKENth nine days after the daily mirror first reported that there had been parties in downing street during the winter lockdown of NUMBER_TOKEN. originally the investigation was led by cabinet secretary simon case but he stepped down on december the NUMBER_TOKENth after his department the cabinet office admitted to holding a quiz night exactly a year before on december the NUMBER_TOKENth NUMBER_TOKEN kate was replaced by the second permanent secretary to the cabinet office sue gray now while that title might not sound particularly impressive even a bit niche grey is actually a political heavyweight she previously worked in and then ran the proprietary and ethics team in the cabinet office throughout the NUMBER_TOKENs and NUMBER_TOKENs where she became right hand man to then cabinet secretary and chief of the civil service jeremy haywood thanks to hayward's influence within government and therefore by proxy grey's own influence she was dubbed the most powerful person you've never heard of by the bbc in NUMBER_TOKEN. gray took up her current position as second permanent secretary to the cabinet office in april of last year when michael gove put her in charge of policy on the union and constitution anyway since gray replaced case her much anticipated report has come to be known as the sue grey report and political twitter has been having a lot of fun making sue grey-related memes especially after johnson repeatedly insisted that he would not resign or take any further action until the report was completed and well this has all taken a lot longer than expected originally the report was only about three parties two parties in number NUMBER_TOKEN on the NUMBER_TOKENth of november and NUMBER_TOKENth of december NUMBER_TOKEN respectively and a third party at the department of education in december which the department of education has now admitted to so everyone expected it to be done in a few weeks but it also said that where there are other credible allegations relating to other gatherings these may be investigated as seemingly endless allegations about new parties have come out gray has had to widen the scope of our investigation accordingly and things have continued to simmer on and it looked like things were going to be delayed even further on tuesday when the met police announced that they would be investigating eight alleged downing street parties according to the report's remit if a matter is referred to the police then the investigation may be paused however the met police quickly made it clear that they hadn't requested the report be delayed at all and it was reported that gray had finished her investigation by tuesday now this was widely perceived to be terrible news for johnson previously
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