Yes, in full.The police have no jurisdiction or authority to restrict publication of the report, or to say what is in it.And as many lawyers have pointed out, there are no grounds to say that publication may prejudice the police enquiries or any prosecution. What information could the potential defendants learn that they do not already know? (Basically, whether or not they were at any of the numerous parties (which Johnson obviously already knows, so the Gray internal inquiry (not "independent investigation") was always a farce in the first place). And there is no question of prejudicing a future jury, because there will not be one - the punish is fixed penalty fines handed out by the police.This is why the reasons given by the police to restrict the report made no sense. And when someone gives a reason for something that makes no sense, there is usually another (undisclosed) reason.In most cases the fine for breach of the regulations is a piddly £100 fixed penalty (reduced to £50 if paid within 14 days). For large gatherings (fifteen or more people indoors) its £800 (reduced to £400 if paid within 14 days), but doubles with each subsequent office up to a maximum of £6,400 - so for the 15 gatherings so far made public the total fines could be over £82,000.For large gatherings of more than 30 peole the fine is £10,000.But none of this reflects the bigger crimes, i.e. the contempt that Johnson has shown to the British people, and his repreated lies to Parliament (and the media, and so the public) about what went on, and more particularly, what he must know went on. The punishment for those crimes should be the sack.
T P Howell ● 1698d