A report into lockdown-breaching U.K. government parties published Wednesday said blame for a “culture” of rule-breaking in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office must rest with those at the top.
Senior civil servant Sue Gray’s long-awaited report into the “partygate” scandal said the “senior leadership team…must bear responsibility” for a culture that allowed events to take place that “should not have been allowed to happen”.
Gray investigated 16 gatherings attended by Johnson and his staff in 2020 and 2021 while people in the U.K. were barred from socializing under coronavirus restrictions imposed by Johnson’s Conservative government.
Gray said there had been “failures of leadership and judgment in No. 10”, a reference to the prime minister’s...
English (US) ·