According to The Times, the covid party report is set to find that Boris Johnson mislead parliament. The former MP has said the guidance had been ‘complied with at all times’ in Downing Street during the pandemic.
It is also expected to state that criticism of the committee should be considered contempt of parliament after Johnson and his allies repeatedly castigated members over the investigation.The former PM said his advisers told him that all gatherings in Downing Street were in line with Covid guidelines The former prime minister has already rejected the findings of the committee, which were sent to him last week.
In his resignation statement on Friday he accused the committee of ‘egregious bias’ and said it was carrying out a ‘political hit-job’.Sunak suggested that Johnson had asked him to bend the rules by overruling the House of Lords Appointments Commission and giving four Tory MPs peerages. ‘Boris Johnson asked me to do something that I wasn’t prepared to do, because I didn’t think it was right,’ Sunak said.
Johnson responded: ‘Rishi Sunak is talking rubbish. To honour these peerages it was not necessary to overrule Holac but simply to ask them to renew their vetting, which was a mere formality.’
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