Boris Johnson's chief of staff has brushed off the suggestion that a new package of cost of living help is timed to deflect attention from Sue Gray's partygate report.
Steve Barclay said that the government did not control when the report - laying bare drunkenness and partying in Downing Street - was published and that it was responding to Ofgem's forecast that typical annual bills would rise to £2,800 this autumn.
Mr Barclay said the prime minister was appalled by the contents of the 37-page report into behaviour at Number 10 during lockdowns - and had been pe...
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