Inside the Boris Johnson partygate probe 🔎 eleanormia and janemerrick23 report
But in fact the privileges committee has gained access to a cache of messages, emails and other documentary evidence far greater than Ms Gray obtained – thanks to an unprecedented data dump from the Cabinet Office in November under Rishi Sunak’s leadership.
Some of the most damning WhatsApps, which revealed that even Mr Johnson’s own staff in No10 struggled to defend that he could not have known parties were happening when covid restrictions were in place, arrived only last Wednesday – the day that the committee was meeting to finalise its interim report.
And in their latest legal opinion, which was written in October last year but only published by the committee in recent days, Lord Pannick and Mr Pobjoy say: “The Committee is composed of MPs some of whom are political opponents of Mr Johnson, and many of whom have made personal criticisms of his conduct…
Some believe it is ludicrous that Mr Johnson’s allies claimed the committee was trying to concoct a plot to undermine Brexit – when two of the senior Conservative MPs on the committee include the leading Brexiteers Sir Bernard Jenkin and Sir Charles Walker. “I think from their interim report on Friday, it’s looking pretty serious to Boris and that he and his acolytes have thrown up about Sue Gray has got absolutely nothing to do with that.
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