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The Privileges Committee say the Commons may have been misled at least four times

The cross-party Privileges Committee said the Commons may have been misled at least four times.

The party has long been over for cake-guzzling former Prime Minister Boris Johnson after he undermined the trust of the British public and totally trashed political standards

Ex-PM Boris Johnson 'knew of law breaches' because he was THERE as MPs probing whether he lied to Parliament give damning verdict and new bashes come to light

The former PM claimed it was 'surreal' the Commons Privileges Committee, which is investigating him, will use evidence from Ms Gray given she is poised to become Keir Starmer’s chief of staff. Labour dismissed the comments as 'ludicrous'

Sue Gray is planning to become the Labour leader’s chief of staff.

An unrepentant Boris Johnson insisted there was 'no evidence' to show he knew rules were being broken with lockdown bashes - despite the Commons Privileges Committee saying it should have been 'obvious' to him

Boris Johnson in fightback mode after publication of interim report but he is in an increasingly weak position

The Commons Privileges Committee has set out the issues it intends to address when it questions the former prime minister.

The saga is not over, with a Commons committee investigating whether the former PM lied to MPs with his partygate denials.

News cycles are like cats – you can feed and generally treat them like kings, but they are never something you truly own. Still, on Monday afternoon when Rishi Sunak revealed the Windsor Framework reforming the Northern Ireland Protocol, he might have hoped to earn a full week of positive…