Boris Johnson will submit a dossier of evidence to MPs as he attempts to clear his name over the Partygate scandal.
‘I’m not sure final decisions have been made but that would be the precedent that we would expect to follow,’ he said.
Asked if he believes the four Tories should withdraw, he told Times Radio: ‘I choose my words more carefully than that. I’m concerned that it will be a witch hunt.’He said he is ‘concerned that we’re going to get a McCarthyite approach to justice on the Privileges Committee’ – a reference to US senator Joseph McCarthy’s zealous efforts to find Communist sympathisers in the 1950s.
In an interim report, the Privileges Committee said the evidence strongly suggests breaches of coronavirus rules in No 10 should have been ‘obvious’ to Mr Johnson. reported he will point to a series of previously undisclosed WhatsApp messages from senior civil servants and members of his No 10 team showing he had relied upon their advice when he made his statements to Parliament.Another gathering that Rishi and Boris attended that was published in The Sue Gray Report into lockdown parties in Downing Street
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