The nature of them, the attendance, the setting, and the purpose. so, that was her remit, if you like. it is how much of that we get to see when it is handed over. and as you heard in iain s report, it has been suggested that sue gray is very keen not to be seen to be removing any of those details. and we did get a bit more detail as well in the metropolitan police statement about what may happen through their investigations. so, it said the offences under investigation, where proven, would normally result in the issue of a fixed penalty notice, and there investigative actions would be proportionate to the nature and their investigative actions would be proportionate to the nature of those offences. it says that the individuals who are identified as having potentially broken the rules will be contacted in writing and invited to explain their actions. and, after that process, if there s sufficient evidence, then, without a reasonable excuse, then officers will decide if enforcement action is appropriate. so, we know what the police is going to do. we know that sue gray still intends to deliver this report, but as i said, the big question at the moment, is exactly
Thatis out their own investigation, and that is all about how they are going to be writing to people who were allegedly at these parties were allegedly, rules were broken, and they will be asking for written replies from people saying whether they had a reasonable excuse for doing what they were doing and once they have processed that, they will be looking at who should be given these fixed penalty notices, these on the spot fines. there is a sense here that they need to reassure the junior staff involved in downing street and elsewhere in whitehall that they are not going to be dealt with in a disproportionate way. they should have a similar experience to people, for example, who were caught breaching lockdowns in parks in the summer of 2020. breaching lockdowns in parks in the summer of 2020. to you, iain, at westminster. we were of course expecting sue gray s report this week. now it is supposed to be released shortly, but redacted. where does this leave borisjohnson? redacted. where does this leave boris johnson? redacted. where does this leave boris johnson? firstly, we should sa that it boris johnson? firstly, we should say that it isn t boris johnson? firstly, we should say that it isn t just boris johnson? firstly, we should say that it isn t just interactions l say that it isn tjust interactions with the metropolitan police that might be delaying this report, but
Or scrap it altogether. but it s more likely that he ll raise the threshold at which it s paid. next month, the government will increase benefits, such as universal credit, by 3.1%, but dozens of charities want the chancellor to go further. let s speak to our political correspondent iain watson. iain, the chancellor s under pressure to tackle steep rises in the cost of living, isn t he? yes, he is under pressure from all sorts of places, from businesses, trade unions, voters, of course, but also from his own conservative mps. he has been eating some of them privately over the past few weeks, listening to their concerns about the rise in cost of living, prices going up at a faster rate than at any time for 30 years. and what many of them want him to do is either delay or destroy entirely this planned rise in national insurance from april. it doesn t look like they will get their way, but what they will get their way, but what they might do is raise the threshold at which it is paid, in other words
Or scrap it altogether, but it s more likely that he ll raise the threshold at which it s paid. next month, the government will increase benefits, including universal credit, by 3.1%, but dozens of charities want the chancellor to go further. let s speak to our political correspondent iain watson. iain, the chancellor s under pressure to tackle steep rises in the cost of living, isn t he? yes, he is under huge pressure, not just from the opposition, notjust from businesses and trade unions, but from newspapers that usually support the conservative party, and from conservative mps to do more to tackle the cost of living crisis. the thing they most want to see is the national insurance increase, the increase in a national insurance contributions, either delayed or
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Prevalent to currently? prevalent to currently? thank you very much, prevalent to currently? thank you very much, iain. prevalent to currently? thank you very much, iain. you re prevalent to currently? thank you very much, iain. you re very i prevalent to currently? thank you very much, iain. you re very good point about whether we are going hard enough and why aren t we doing plan b, the key thing to understand is you have got two variants in play now, and they require a different approach. so what we are doing, we think the measures we have are right for dealing with delta, and they are proportionate and you have heard from chris about what is happening with case numbers and also with hospitalisations with the measures we have in place, and also we think that this is the right approach to omicron given the uncertainties that we have and the need to take a precautionary approach with an incoming variant from elsewhere, about which we simply don t yet know enough. so it is two different variants that require two simultaneous strategies, if you like. and on your point about where we are overall in the pandemic, i
Been imposed even if you have two jabs if you come into contact with someone suspected of having the omicron variant and labour are saying to the prime minister there are concerns about whether people will self isolate unless is increased, so some big concerns for the government but this is a significant moment because we are starting to see a slight slide back at this stage, the government targeted restrictions better slight slide back to restrictions we were all hoping to see the beginning of the end of the pandemic.- all hoping to see the beginning of the end of the pandemic. thank you, iain, in the end of the pandemic. thank you, lain. in downing the end of the pandemic. thank you, iain, in downing street. the latest government coronavirus figures show there were 39,567 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period. that is mostly the delta variant. on average, there were nearly a4,000 new cases reported per day in the last week. 131 deaths were recorded, that s of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid 19 test. on average in the past week,
Privately but had made very little progress. you ask me specifically how serious is this row. today has been dominated by megaphone diplomacy, but behind the scenes there are quieter attempts to try to get the relationship back on an even keel get the relationship back on an even keel. so it is a move to try to get priti patel ri invited to meet her french counterpart this weekend, and in any case she spoke to him just a few hours ago about the migrant crisis, so the lines of communication remain open. the uk is continuing to pay by instalment £54 million to try to improve surveillance and patrols on the other side of the channel, but the atmosphere is a bit more negative now than it was, there is no doubt about that, and labour are blaming the prime ministerfor about that, and labour are blaming the prime minister for this. about that, and labour are blaming the prime ministerfor this. they say borisjohnson has exercised a grave error ofjudgment. idin. say boris johnson has exercised a grave error ofjudgment. grave error of udgment. iain, thank ou. katya, that s the view from downing street what are they saying in france