Covid live: France reports 332,398 new cases; some UK schools reintroduce mask wearing in classrooms
by Harry Taylor (now) and Sarah Marsh and Jedidajah O from World news | The Guardian on (#5VJ48)
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In the UK, a heavily redacted report by the senior civil servant Sue Gray on parties at Downing Street will be published imminently, the Guardian understands.
It comes after Scotland Yard provoked fury and confusion by revealing it had demanded key details of the worst offending be removed. MPs labelled the Metropolitan police a broken organisation after the force admitted it had asked Gray to make minimal reference" in her inquiry report to matters its officers were now investigating.
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