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May 2022
Harrogate district MP: 'Time for Boris to get on with the job'
Nigel Adams is the only Harrogate district MP to comment so far on the publication of the long-awaited Sue Gray report.
The senior civil servant found that many of the parties in Downing Street "should not have been allowed to happen".
The report included details of vomiting and parties lasting until 4am whilst the UK was under covid restrictions.
Mr Adams, whose Selby and Ainsty constituency includes several Harrogate district villages, is a member of the cabinet and a key ally of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He tweeted this afternoon:
Other cabinet ministers including Rishi Sunak, Dominic Raab and Nadine Dorries all tweeted similar messages of support for the Prime Minister at the same time.
https://twitter.com/nadams/status/1529456100466167809
What have Andrew Jones and Julian Smith said?
The Stray Ferret asked the two other Tory MPs in the district, Harrogate and Knaresborough's Andrew Jones and Skipton and Ripon's Julian Smith for their response to the report but we did not get a reply.
In January during a Commons debate, Mr Jones said the Sue Gray report should be published in full.
In the same month, an email to a constituent revealed Mr Jones thoughts on 'partygate' scandal. The MP said: "I take the maxim ‘lawmakers can’t be lawbreakers’ seriously."
Mr Jones said if criminal actions were found then "consequences must flow from that".
Julian Smith is yet to comment publicly on the report.
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