What would upset things is if Sue Gray decide that, since there is no legal force to the police request, she should ignore it and provide an undoctored report to Johnson. He could then do the doctoring himself. Of course he could lie and say that Sue Gray had done the dirty deed herself, but I doubt if that could stand up long, and that could be one lie too far.

The big danger is that Boris could decide that ratcheting up things in Ukraine offers the best way out for him, and thathe precipitates a war - it sounds as if the Ukraine government is not worried about that, pointing out that there is in fact no build up ofRussian forces over the level of the past few years.