Sue Gray report – live: Boris Johnson denies party at No 10 despite photos of drinking

The ex-Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings has accused the prime minister of lying to the Commons and also “possibly to the cops”.

As photos of Boris Johnson partying during lockdown at No 10 emerge, Mr Cummings said that “any reasonable person looking at some of these photos will only be able to conclude that the PM obviously lied to the Commons, and possibly to the cops, and there is no reasonable story for how others were fined for event X but not him.”

In his latest blog post, Mr Cummings asked “how has he not been fined more? It’s not because the PM’s presence is in doubt: multiple officials have told the cops he was at X or Y event that the cops have defined ‘unlawful’ and given the cops photos, so the cops know he was there.”

He added: “Part of the reason is that for some events the police simply have not investigated, haven’t asked him about X or Y.”

Photos have emerged of the prime minister at a lockdown party that he denied ever happened.

Watch the moment he denied there was a party at No 10 during lockdown here:

Responding to the receipt of his fine, Boris Johnson said: “In all frankness at that time it did not occur to me that this might have been a breach of the rules. Of course, the police have found otherwise and I fully respect the outcome of their investigation.”

He said he understood “the anger that many will feel that I myself fell short when it came to observing the very rules which the government I lead had introduced to protect the public”.

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Boris Johnson is facing fresh accusations from Labour that he lied to parliament after photographs emerged of him raising a glass at a Downing Street party during lockdown.

The images were obtained by ITV News.

Labour now claims that “there is no doubt” that the prime minister had “lied” to the MPs. The opposition also accused Mr Johnson of misleading parliament.

Senior civil servant Sue Gray’s report into the Partygate scandal is expected to drop this week. It was reported that Ms Gray is set to be highly critical of the culture in No 10 and Whitehall.

Downing Street proposed a meeting between Boris Johnson and Sue Gray, it was reported on Monday as Westminster awaits Ms Gray’s report into Partygate.

Treasury minister Simon Clarke had said that Ms Gray had “instigated” the meeting. But No 10 confirmed later that Downing Street officials had discussed with Ms Gray about updating the prime minister on her inquiry.

“Following that Sue Gray’s office sent through a technical request for a meeting,” said the prime minister’s official spokesman.

The spokesman added: “He’s [Mr Clarke’s] right that the formal technical meeting request came through from Sue Gray.”