The Metro says Boris Johnson’s three-hour “grilling” by the privileges committee. The paper describes the former prime minister as growing increasingly bad-tempered during his exchanges with the seven-strong panel, even snapping at one point: “You don’t know what you’re saying.”

The paper says Mr Johnson was “rattled” and squirmed over “slogans and bottles of booze” during what it calls “several bad-tempered exchanges” with the seven-strong panel who’ll decide his fate.