Boris Johnson says his Partygate denials were made in good faith, ahead of a grilling from MPs on Wednesday.
The committee is expected to publish its verdict on Mr Johnson by the summer.
He said the "only exception" were assertions made by his former top aide Dominic Cummings, whom he said was "discredited" and was motivated by personal animosity. The committee has decided that whether he intended to mislead MPs is not relevant to what it has been charged with investigating: whether it was stopped from doing its job by his statements to MPs.
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