Investigation of ‘Partygate’ on suspicion of quarantine violations
After graduating from high school, he became a civil servant… upright personality
Upon completion of the investigation, a final report must be made to Johnson.
“The future of British politics, as well as Johnson’s fate, is in the hands of Sue Gray.”
It is a name that appears most frequently in British politicians and media recently. Although he is not a famous parliamentarian or politician, he is an ordinary government official, but British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in charge of the so-called ‘partygate’ investigation that he attended a party during the COVID-19 lockdown.
According to BBC, etc. on the 17th (local time), the British Cabinet Department is currently investigating 12 various parties held within the government during the Corona 19 lockdown, including a drinking party in the palace garden attended by Prime Minister Johnson in May 2020 and a Christmas party in the Prime Minister’s Office in December 2020. An investigation is underway.
Sue Gray (65, photo), who is the director of the Etiquette and Ethics Team under the British Cabinet, became a hot topic. Although he is a high-ranking official who falls under the ‘second vice minister’, he is far from a famous politician. However, the current Prime Minister is to the extent of saying, “Let’s wait for Gray’s judgment” whenever the opposition demands that he ‘resign as prime minister’. Gray was even given the right to meet with Prime Minister Johnson.
Gray is a high school graduate and has been working in the British government as a front-line civil servant since the 1970s. In the late 1980s, she and her husband briefly left office to run a bar. He returned to the Office of Government Policy Coordination in the late 1990s, and since then, in recognition of his upright personality, he has served as the director of the ethics team of the Cabinet Office since 2012 to investigate corruption in major public officials.
The Guardian, a British daily newspaper, said, “The results of Director Gray’s investigation could lead to the resignation of the prime minister and, in the long run, the Conservative Party’s defeat in the general election.” After completing the investigation, Gray must make a final report to Prime Minister Johnson, who is “the party to the incident.”
Paris = Correspondent Yunjong Kim zozo@donga.com
