PM awaits Sue Gray report as Tory MP claims Met is ‘abusing power’

Redacted version reportedly to be sent to Johnson over weekend amid further calls for it to be released in entirety

The inquiry into Downing Street parties could be shared with Boris Johnson as soon as this weekend as cross-party demands mount for the report to be published in its entirety after an intervention by Scotland Yard.

The timeline for the publication of the long-awaited report by the senior civil servant Sue Gray on alleged lockdown breaches at Downing Street and Whitehall was thrown into question this week when the Metropolitan police announced on Tuesday that a criminal investigation had been launched.