Privileges committee document intended to help ex-PM prepare for questioning contains wealth of new information

Boris Johnson faces a battle for his future in parliament after a cross-party committee found there was significant evidence he misled MPs over lockdown parties, and that he and aides almost certainly knew at the time they were breaking rules.

The damning report includes one witness saying the then-prime minister told a packed No 10 gathering in November 2020, when strict Covid were in force, that “this is probably the most unsocially distanced gathering in the UK right now”.

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