Rivals’ wild claims of report ‘stitch-up’

OPPOSITION leaders yesterday lined up to make a string of incendiary claims about a so-called ‘stitch-up’ between No 10 and the Metropolitan Police over Partygate.

They tried to stoke claims Commissioner Cressida Dick had intervened to suppress the full publication of the Sue Gray report to let Boris Johnson off the hook.

Sir Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, tweeted: ‘A stitch-up between the Met leadership and No 10 will damage our politics for generations and it looks like it is happening right in front of our eyes.’

This prompted Tory MP Michael Fabricant to reply: ‘The Lib Dems called for a police investigation and now they’re accusing the police of corruption.’

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that the situation was getting ‘murkier by the minute’, and the rapid conclusion and full publication of inquiries was ‘now essential for public trust’.

Sir Keir Starmer said that ‘any issues of prejudice have got to be worked through’. The Labour leader added the ‘whole of government’ had become ‘paralysed because the police are looking at what the Prime Minister was getting up to in Downing Street’.