Sir Keir Starmer might have "serious questions to answer" if he was speaking to Sue Gray whereas she was advising the MPs investigating partygate, a senior minister has advised Sky News.

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly was talking as the cupboard workplace is ready to publish an "update into the circumstances leading to the resignation of a senior civil servant" later right now - which is known to be about Ms Gray's shift to Labour.

Reports in a single day declare the previous senior civil servant held talks with Labour whereas she was nonetheless a part of the propriety and ethics staff, which suggested the committee of MPs trying into COVID gatherings inside Number 10.

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Mr Cleverly mentioned: "I have never seen the report, it is a fully impartial report, it is the physique that appears at senior appointment.

"If that is what the report says, I do think Keir Starmer has got some serious questions to answer."

Labour has disputed the account, nevertheless, with one supply telling Sky News: "The propriety and ethics team handled requests from the privileges committee, reporting to minister for cabinet office, Jeremy Quin.

"Sue Gray was not working in that staff."

Sky News revealed earlier this year that Sir Keir was contemplating appointing Ms Gray as his chief of workers.