Partygate report ‘in danger of making House of Commons look foolish’, Rees-Mogg says

Liz Truss resigned as prime minister “because the lettuce was better than her”, Labour MP Jess Phillips has said.

Speaking about the controversy around Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, the shadow minister took a passing shot at his successor.

“We forget this all the time, Boris Johnson resigned because he covered up for Chris Pincher, and Liz Truss resigned because the lettuce was better than her,” Ms Phillips said, referencing the infamous Daily Star live stream of the iceberg lettuce that outlasted her.

“They left in disgrace for crashing the economy, and Partygate, and all the rest of it.”

A damning report by parliament‘s privileges committee has concluded that Boris Johnson misled parliament and recommended that he should be barred from having a parliamentary security pass in future.

The 106-page document, put together by the cross-party group of MPs with a Tory majority, is packed with detail and arguments. Here are the seven most damning sections:

Tory MPs are split over whether or not to approve the “damning” Partygate report.

Several MPs told the media that they were “hovering” between voting and abstaining.

One Conservative MP told BBC: “I think I’m hovering between voting for the report and abstaining, the latter solely because voting for it will rile members.”

Another member said: “The report speaks for itself.” They described the 90-day suspension as “a bit tough, but hey-ho”.

Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg told Sky News: “Inevitably, Boris will lose the vote because you have the whole of the Opposition against him… you also have the Boris haters in the Conservative Party.”

Nadine Dorries tweeted: “Any Conservative MP who would vote for this report is fundamentally not a Conservative and will be held to account by members and the public. Deselections may follow. It’s serious.”

Boris Johnson has been found in contempt of parliament for deliberately lying to the Commons about Partygate in an utterly scathing report by a cross-party group of MPs.

The former PM would have faced a suspension of 90 days for deliberately misleading MPs and “being complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation” of the privileges committee.

The committee also found that Mr Johnson be banned from parliament – recommending that he should not be entitled to a former member’s pass.

Mr Johnson immediately fired back at the verdict – claiming the committee was “beneath contempt” because it reached a “deranged conclusion” to deliver “what is intended to be the final knife-thrust in a protracted political assassination”.

A damning report by parliament‘s privileges committee has concluded that Boris Johnson misled parliament and recommended that he should be barred from having a parliamentary security pass in future.

The 106 page document, put together by the cross-party group of MPs with a Tory majority, is packed with detail and arguments. Here are the seven most damning sections:

Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston has branded Boris Johnson “inhuman” and “scum” following a damning verdict on the former prime minister’s conduct.

A report into Partygate has found that Johnson repeatedly lied to Parliament about gatherings in Downing Street during lockdown, and was “complicit in a campaign of abuse and intimidation” of the privileges committee.

Johnson has criticised the findings, calling them a “deranged conclusion” and accusing the Tory-majority group of MPs, who he has repeatedly sought to disparage, of lying.

When he discovered he was going to face the consequences of his actions, Johnson lashed out. His behaviour fails to uphold the best traditions of our parliament, writes Catherine West

Downing Street has rejected calls to strip Boris Johnson of the £115,000 a year expense allowance given to former prime ministers – after an inquiry found he had repeatedly misled parliament.

The ex prime minister is facing a ban from holding a parliamentary security pass after a devastating cross-party committee blasted his handling of the Partygate scandal.

But there are now calls that Mr Johnson should be stripped of the other trappings of office, including generous lifetime expenses and gongs for his allies and cronies.

Sean O’Grady looks at what could happen when the findings of the privileges committee are debated in parliament on Monday