let's discuss this further with damian grammaticus —— damian grammaticus.exactly was baroness hallett saying there? if you cut through all the legal terminology, what she was talking about was this political issue that has arisen at the outset of this inquiry and the issue boils down to the information she has asked for from the government, who has the right to go through that with the big black pen and say they should not be seen, this isn't relevant. is that the government before provided to her or is it her? and that material then is shown to the inquiry. who has the decision—making power over what really is scrutinised by the inquiry as it will unfold over the next month's and even years? it is really important argument on the basis on which this inquiry is going to work. when it was set up a trust set up on the basis that she could request any information that she wanted and it had to be handed over. what the government has been arguing in the last few days is that, no, when you are looking at things like whatsapp messages sent between borisjohnson and

damian grammaticus, bbc news, westminster.p he wants to say he's focused on the economy and other things. at the same time he wants to say the privileges investigation, the party in question, that's all processes that must be followed. he is finding himself drawn into those arguments with his predecessor. that leaves open the possibility for the opposition to try to create this narrative that mr rishi sunak is prime minister distracted by problems internally and therefore not able focus on people want in a broader sense. not able focus on people want in a broadersense. remembertomorrow the broader sense. remember tomorrow the mps broadersense. remembertomorrow the mps of investigation whether boris johnson misled parliament, next week a debate on that, in the coming weeks those by elections and all of that will mean these arguments keep coming back. the privileges committee will publish its report into whether borisjohnson publish its report into whether boris johnson misled publish its report into whether borisjohnson misled

our political correspondent damian grammaticus has this report. boris johnson's resignation. july last year, borisjohnson�*s resignation. a series of scandals led to this, just three years after he won a huge election victory. as with all prime ministers, he gets to hand out his resignation honours. among them, conservative mps who were some of his closest supporters. jacob rees—mogg, he was brexit opportunities minister, business secretary and leader of the commons, gets a knighthood. but not a seat in the lords. priti patel, mrjohnson�*s home secretary, is made a dame. ben houchen, another ally and the mayor of tees valley, is one of those mr johnson is sending to the lords. labour have criticised that, as there is a review into his use of public funds in his area. a knighthood for this man, martin reynolds, is one of the most controversial. mrjohnson�*s chief of staff, who had to resign after he sent an e—mail inviting staff to a bring your own booze party in the downing street garden during lockdown. and jack doyle, he resigned as mrjohnson�*s

here's our political correspondent, damian grammaticus.llout from the resignation of borisjohnson continues to reverberate. we continue to see tensions, signs of splits within the party and that may only get worse in the coming days because tomorrow, monday morning, we will have the privileges committee, which he done that investigation into boris johnston sent in the report and on the basis of that, he said he was quitting. they will meet an expectation is they will publish the full report and that we will see their conclusions into the investigation as to whether boris johnson lied to parliament. we will also see the sanction they were recommending. the bbc understands that was at least ten days which of course is what mrjohnson said in his resignation, he thought it was a kangaroo court, determined to drive him out of parliament. the sanction of ten days is what the threshold is needed to trigger a recall petition, essentially a petition in his constituency of 10% of voters there had signed it, he would have had to stand down and there