Boris Johnson viewed Sue Gray as ‘psycho’ as she carried out Partygate probe, says Harri – UK politics live

Latest updates: Guto Harri, ex-PM’s communications director, says there was a sense Gray ‘lacked perspective as to what she had done’

At the weekend shadow ministers were relatively careful about what they said about the way new anti-protest laws were deployed against anti-monarchy protesters at the coronation. But this morning Lisa Nandy, the shadow levelling up secretary, was more critical, telling BBC Breakfast:

Clearly, something has gone wrong in this case.

Peaceful protest is an important part of British democracy. The Met accepted that and I think the mayor of London is right to ask for a review to determine what exactly went wrong in this case.

Whatever it was, this was a very complex policing operation. It largely went off without a hitch and I think the police deserve credit for that. But where there are incidents like this, we have to take them seriously and I think that it’s right that we learn the lessons and take steps to rectify that.

Rishi Sunak is announcing his latest plan for NHS reform – a move that could make it easier for patients to get prescriptions for basic conditions, because pharmacists will be allowed to issue them.

Keir Starmer is capitalising on his victory in last week’s local elections, meeting Labour council leaders and the shadow cabinet, and telling them that the Tories have misjudged the mood of voters by focusing on culture war issues.

The Metropolitan police continues to face criticism for the arrest of anti-monarchy protesters on Saturday. There is very likely to be an urgent question on this in the Commons after 3.30pm.

So this was not this objective, dispassionate view of what really went on … There are many people who behave badly during that period. None of them are in the public domain, none of them have been mentioned. It was all landed on one guy because he happened to be the guy at the top.

If I were to say one word, maybe, that will be recurring in ‘[the podcast], ‘Psycho’ Sue Gray would be part it. There was a sense that she lacked perspective as to what he had done.

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