Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has said he does not know who requested a meeting between the prime minister and Sue Gray over her partygate report, but is confident there was "no way" she would allow herself to be influenced by anybody.
Speaking to Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, the cabinet minister also insisted Boris Johnson would not have intervened in the independent investigation, which is widely expected to publish its findings in the coming week.
He said the process had been "absolutely robust and rigorous", pointing out the senior civil servant did not "pull her punches" in her previous limited report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street, which
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