MPs to vote on whether they support Boris Johnson Partygate report later today
The Metro says MPs will decide later whether to support a report that found Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties in No 10.
A 14-month-long inquiry from the Commons privileges committee said the former prime minister committed repeated offences with his Partygate denials.
The long-awaited report concluded Mr Johnson misled the Commons by:
– Claiming Covid rules and guidance were followed at all times in Number 10 on four separate occasions;
– Failing to tell the House ‘about his own knowledge of the gatherings where the rules or guidance had been broken’;
– Saying he relied on ‘repeated reassurances’ that rules had not been broken;
– Insisting on waiting for Sue Gray’s report to be published before he could answer questions in the House, when he had ‘personal knowledge which he did not reveal’;
– By claiming that rules and guidance had been followed while he was present at gatherings in Number 10 when he ‘purported to correct the record’ in May 2022.
