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Jon Weeks and Rachelle Abbott

OPINION - The Leader podcast: Is the party over for Boris Johnson?

After almost one year the Privileges Committtee’s Partgate report has finally been published, finding former Prime Minister Boris Johnson did deliberately mislead parliament over Partygate.

The report suggested that Boris Johnson should have been suspended for 90 days from the Commons for “repeated contempts” and for seeking to undermine the parliamentary process.

Mr Johnson has called the committee a “kangaroo court”, and dramatically quit as an MP on Friday after receiving its verdict.

The Evening Standard's Chief Political Correspondent Rachael Burford discusses the details in the report, what punishment awaits Mr Johnson, how the public might respond, and what might happen next.

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