BORIS WARNED: YOUR FUTURE'S ON HOLD

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- Nicholas Cecil, David Bond, Rachael Burford and Anthony France

BORIS JOHNSON was warned today that Tory MPs have put “on hold the “big call” on whether he remains Prime Minister.

Senior Conservative MP and former chief whip Mark Harper laid out the stark reality for Mr Johnson as he faced the possibility of being interviewed by police over the Downing Street partygate scandal. Mr Johnson might have hoped to draw a line under the affair following yesterday's limited but damning report from Sue Gray which revealed Scotland Yard is now investigating 12 different gatherings, including at least three which may have been attended by the Prime Minister.

But as Mr Johnson flew to Ukraine this morning for crisis talks on the threat of a Russian invasion, Mr Harper said the Prime Minister's future was still very much up in the air. “She [Sue Gray) said in that update that she could not produce a meaningful report at all at the moment because of the Metropolitan Police investigations, Mr Harper, chair of the influential Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs, told Talk Radio. We are very much on hold at the moment, waiting I'm afraid for Sue Gray's report properly and the Met to finish its investigation.”