‘It looks like a mess’ BBC’s Jon Kay erupts at Grant Shapps over Sue Gray report
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Jon Kay erupted at the Secretary of State for Transport on Tuesday’s instalment of BBC Breakfast over Sue Gray’s long-awaited Partygate report. It comes after Downing Street admitted it had requested an in-person consultation between the senior civil servant and Boris Johnson earlier in May, but refused to disclose what was discussed.
Kay began: “At a time when the Prime Minister is dealing with levelling up and dealing with transport and dealing with Ukraine, we know he was calling in Sue Gray just a couple of weeks before she publishes her report to have a little chat about what it might be including and how it might be released.”
The journalist fumed at the MP: “How does that look?”
Shapps disagreed with Kay and assured BBC Breakfast viewers it was “normal” practice to discuss “technical details and timing” about the report.
However, Kay furiously interjected: “This is not normal, is it? What we are seeing in Government at the moment is far from normal.”
“This doesn’t look good does it?” Kay added. “It looks like a mess, it looks like you are trying to hide stuff.”
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