'The privileges committee should publish their report and let the world judge their nonsense.' Boris Johnson has sent a last-minute letter to MPs investigating whether he mislead the house over Partygate.
who he blasted as ‘secretly blocking’ the peerage of his loyal follower Nadine Dorries.
‘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.’ The Tories are now faced with three upcoming by-elections after Mr Johnson, Ms Dorries and Nigel Adams sensationally quit.
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