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Even Boris Johnson seems to have given up the Partygate fight – he knows his power is waning THE GUARDIAN SAYS In the buildup to the privileges committee’s inquiry into whether Boris Johnson intentionally misled parliament over Covid breaches, the former prime minister and his supporters refused to go down without a fight. Team Johnson repeatedly questioned the integrity of the committee, likening it to a kangaroo court. When Johnson received a draft copy of the report stating that he had indeed misled parliament, the former prime minister was so angry that he quit, slamming its findings ahead of publication…

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Boris forced out: Ex-PM’s enemies seal his fate as allies fume at ‘ridiculous’ stitch-up THE DAILY EXPRESS SAYS Boris Johnson was forced out by a committee that deliberately took the most “unfavourable” view of his behaviour, Tories insisted. The former prime minister’s enemies lined up to vilify him in a brutal Commons debate on the probe that ruled he misled parliament. The report had been expected to be nodded through after Mr Johnson urged allies not to oppose it, arguing that the sanctions have no practical effect and it is time to move on. But Labour MPs used a parliamentary…

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Imagine Boris Johnson with the populist appeal and none of the chaos? Now that would be worth voting for THE SUN SAYS The tragedy of Boris Johnson is that he made it easy for his ­enemies to put his tousled head on a spike. A few short years ago, an astonishing 14million votes propelled him to an 80-seat majority at the last General Election. On Monday — Boris’s 59th birthday — MPs will vote on whether to endorse the Privileges Committee report on Partygate and remove his Parliamentary pass. If Bojo was still an MP — he quit a week…

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‘More kids than he has allies’: Boris’s hooliganism is history, but Rishi’s cowardly no-show was an own-goal THE INDEPENDENT SAYS Seven. Just seven last ditch supporters of Boris Johnson, The Not-So-Magnificent Seven, saddled up and went into the parliamentary lobbies to support their lost leader and vote against the Privileges Committee’s report into his lying to parliament. Seven. Johnson’s got more kids than that. It’s a miserable footnote to the career of a man who, for a while, bestrode British politics like a colossus, or at least a great big squatting toad. They were not even his most high-profile fans.…

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Boris Johnson’s political career is done, how the newspapers reacted The UK newspapers have reacted strongly to former prime minister Boris Johnson’s ongoing Partygate scandal. Last week, the Privileges Committee – a group made up of cross-party MPs – found that Boris Johnson had deliberately misled Parliament over gatherings at Downing Street during Covid restrictions. Even Boris Johnson seems to have given up the Partygate fight – he knows his power is waningKaty Balls – The Guardian In response to their findings, Johnson quit as an MP and blamed everyone else for what his supporters called a ‘stitch-up’. On Monday…

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