Boris Johnson ‘privately reassured’ his job is safe as Sue Gray report looms

Boris Johnson has already been told he will be able to stay in power after Sue Gray’s partygate report is finally released, sources claim.

The public, and indeed the Tories, are anxiously awaiting the conclusion of the civil servant’s investigation into the many claims against the Government for allegedly flouting coronavirus restrictions while forcing the public to follow them.

With the report just handed in to Number 10, many will be wondering if the prime minister’s political career will survive what it has to say.

But Mr Johnson has already been ‘privately reassured’ his job is safe, sources quoted by The Mirror said.

This is despite reports that Sue Gray has taken evidence for the most recent accusations claiming Carrie Johnson held a ‘victory party’ on November 13, 2020, after Dominic Cummings resigned.

‘There was the sound of lots of banging and dancing and drinking, and a number of Abba tracks – including a triumphalist Winner Takes It All,’ a source told the Daily Mail.

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A spokesperson for Mrs Johnson, quoted by the publication, insisted any claims about a party on that date are ‘totally untrue’.

Scotland Yard said it would investigate alleged Number 10 parties, after weeks of refusing to do so, last Tuesday.

The decision caused controversy as it has come with a request from the Metropolitan Police to redact important names and information when the report is made public.

The Met said this is to ‘protect the integrity of the police investigation’ and to be ‘as fair as possible to those who are subject to it’.

Both Labour and the Lib Dems have said the whole thing looks like a ‘cover up’ with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey saying the Met is ‘undermining public trust’.

He tweeted last Friday: ‘A stitch-up between the Met leadership and Number 10 will damage our politics for generations and it looks like it is happening right in front of our eyes.’

Defending his comments on Sunday, Sir Ed added: ‘I always wanted the Met to investigate but what I didn’t want, what I don’t think anybody wanted, was to make such a hash of it – changing their position so many times, which, of course, makes people concerned.’

Even though Sue Gray’s report has not yet been realised, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has already apologised to ‘everyone who stuck to the rules’.

Interviewed by broadcaster Andrew Neil for a Channel 4 documentary on Mr Johnson’s leadership on Sunday, Mr Gove admitted that ‘mistakes that were made by people in positions of influence and prestige’.

Mr Neil confronted Mr Gove with an NHS poster showing the face of a patient on a ventilator captioned: ‘Look her in the eyes and tell her you’ll never bend the rules’.

Mr Gove said: ‘That is an effecting and powerful reminder of what so many people went through. I can only apologise to everyone who stuck to the rules and did what they did was right at an incredibly difficult time

‘The fact that there were mistakes made by people in positions of influence and prestige is incredibly difficult.’

Mr Johnson has already faced calls to resign from his own party and the opposition, with Sir Keir Starmer calling him a ‘national distraction’.

The Tory leader previously admitted he attended a garden party in Downing Street in May 2020, but insisted he believed it was a work event.

He also apologised for a boozy party in Number 10 on the eve of Prince Philip’s funeral, although said he was not in attendance himself.

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