{O/C} To Britain now, where Boris Johnson is putting his job on the line as an official report on the "partygate" scandal is out today.
As it turns out, it was a serious failure that allowed this scandal to play out.
Members of the Parliament also portrayed the scandal as a farce.
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An official report published by senior civil servant Sue Gray pinpointed the reason for the "partygate" scandal playing out: Failures of leadership and judgment.
Investigators pored over some 300 photographs and 500 pages of documents. The images include pictures from surveillance cameras purportedly showing alleged bashes being held at Johnson's Downing Street garden.
In the report released today, Sue Gray criticised the administration for allowing impropriety that senior civil servants and staff drank to a stage at which they were inebriated.
The gatherings include a June 2020 birthday party and two gatherings held on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral back in April last year.
This, as Gray further elucidated that at this stage, it is hard-pressed to produce a meaningful report, provided that some of their behaviour during those gatherings is difficult to justify.
Her findings on 12 gatherings have yet to be released at the behest of the Metropolitan Police on grounds of avoiding any prejudice to the probe into the mind-boggling scandal.
Inside the Parliament, Boris Johnson answered for his actions today.
{Soundbite} BORIS JOHNSON, British Prime Minister: Firstly I want to say sorry. And I am sorry for the things we simply didn't get right, and also sorry for the way that this matter has been handled.
Nevertheless, his apology didn't sit well with members of the Parliament. The leader of the Labour Party insists his promise that he will reform the way his office is run rings hollow, and Keir Starmer pinned Johnson down with a vengeance.
{Soundbite} KEIR STARMER, Labour Party Leader: The Prime Minister repeatedly assured the house that the guidance was followed and the rules were followed. But we now know that 12 cases have reached the threshold for criminal investigation. Our national story about COVID is one of a people that stood up when they were tested. But that will be forever tainted by the behaviour of this conversative Prime Minister.
Boris Johnson's predecessor concurred, saying the Prime Minister should have seen to it that everyone in Britain is subject to COVID restrictions.
{Soundbite} THERESA MAY, Former British Prime Minister: What the Gray report does show is that number 10 Downing Street was not observing the regulations they had imposed on members of the public. So either my Right Honourable friend had not read the rules or didn't understand what they meant and others around him, or they didn't think the rules applied to Number 10. Which was it?
Outside the Parliament, reporters bombarded the defiant Prime Minister with questions he obviously flinched from answering.
{Soundbite} (Reporter: Will you have to resign, Prime Minister? Is it a failure of leadership?)
The scandal has put paid to his political future, but he remains adamant he is not resigning.
Even those who've served in Johnson's administration are not completely sold on the idea that Johnson can ride out this storm.
{Soundbite} ROBERT BUCKLAND, Former Justice Secretary: The truth is the jury's still out because we haven't come to the end of this process.
Things are not yet on an even keel as police continued to comb through more evidence related to his flagrant lockdown rule breaches.
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