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Sue Gray report | HR experts discuss what's next for Downing St's whistleblowers & law breakers

HR experts discuss what's next for Downing St's whistleblowers & law breakers

Sue Gray’s report into Downing Street’s lockdown breaches was published in full yesterday, comprising extremely critical insights into the culture and leadership at the highest levels of Government...

The investigation into ‘Partygate’, as it’s been widely referred to, probed no fewer than 16 events in which the police uncovered multiple breaches of Covid rules during the pandemic.

An abridged version of the report had been published in February 2022, but the Met Police’s investigation meant few details were actually revealed at the time.

Sue Gray declared in her heavily summarised report that there had been "failures of leadership and judgement" which were “difficult to justify”, as well as excessive drinking described as “not appropriate in a professional workplace at any time".

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