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PM rejects calls for official probe into Queen Brexit story

David Cameron has rejected calls for an official investigation into The Sun newspaper's claim that the Queen had backs a Brexit.

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Chris Grayling: The Queen is very much above politics

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling. Credit: ITV News

The Queen is "very much above politics", the Leader of the House of Commons and the Lord President of the Privy Council has said.

Speaking about the report that Her Majesty had voiced anti-EU remarks during a lunch with MPs, Chris Grayling told ITV News' Lewis Vaughan Jones:

I think it's really important that we treat anything the Queen ever says as private.

My experience of working with the Queen as the person who presides over the Privy Council is that she is very much above politics.

She fulfills her role as a constitutional monarch brilliantly and we should all applaud her for it.

– Chris Grayling MP

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