‘Failure of leadership’: what the papers say about Johnson and the Sue Gray Partygate report

Many front pages take Boris Johnson to task for the lockdown-busting gatherings, but others try to draw a line under the affair

The front pages of the British newspapers offer very contrasting shades of Gray in their handling of the report into the Partygate scandal and its implications for Boris Johnson’s tenure in 10 Downing Street.

“Drinking, fights, vomiting: all in a day’s work, says PM” is how the Guardian sums up the prime minister’s attempt to brazen out the publication of Sue Gray’s report which found that the “senior leadership” in No 10 should bear responsibility for the boozy culture.

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