By Ben Kerrigan-
Sue Gray plans to name civil servants who broke Covid rules at lockdown parties in and around Downing Street.
The senior civil servant is poised to publish her full report on the parties after the Metropolitan Police wound up their investigation.
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The Met have not named any of the 83 individuals who have been fined.
Those expected to be named by Ms Gray have been given until 5pm on Sunday to respond to information she intends to publish about them, it is understood.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signed off the authority for Ms Gray to use her professional expertise to determine what steps she takes in her investigation. She said it would be “entirely up to Sue Gray” whom she names when publishing her report, adding: “fingers crossed, that will be very soon.”
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The Met Police have confirmed that they will not be fining Boris Johnson and his wife for any firther breaches.
It had been widely expected the PM could be fined again over other parties, but he has been told he will face no further action.
The Met has revealed some officials are facing fines for being at a party in the No 10 garden in May 2020 attended by Mr Johnson, for which he did not receive a fine.
The force has not said how many events in total attracted fines, or explained in detail the circumstances that led to individuals receiving them.
Its probe, which lasted four months and cost £460,000, led to 126 fines being issued for events in and around Downing Street.
Some Conservative MPs have previously said they are reserving judgement on Mr Johnson’s future until the full Gray report is published.
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If the individuals Ms Gray plans to name in her report object to what is being said about them, it could delay publication.
A source familiar with the report told the BBC her assessment could be that there were trails of evidence to suggest the prime minister was badly advised, and not necessarily aware of what events he was stumbling into.
An interim version of her report, published in January, did not name individuals but criticised “failures of leadership and judgement” and said some events not have “been allowed to take place”.
Dave Penman, boss of the FDA union representing senior civil servants, told the BBC there had been “no rationale” to name people in the Met inquiry.
But he added there would be a “harder line to tread” for Ms Gray in her report, where she would need to balance “sensitivity around naming someone publicly against the important need for public scrutiny of senior officials”.
However, he expressed greater concern over junior officials being named.
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