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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aubrey Allegretti Senior political correspondent

Ex-ministers campaigned to undermine Johnson Partygate inquiry, says report

Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries – mounted ‘the most vociferous attacks … from the platform of their own hosted TV shows’, the report said.
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries – mounted ‘the most vociferous attacks … from the platform of their own hosted TV shows’, the report said. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Former cabinet ministers and allies of Boris Johnson have been accused of launching an “unprecedented and coordinated” campaign to undermine the inquiry into whether he misled parliament over Partygate.

The finding came in a new report by the privileges committee, which posed a fresh problem for Rishi Sunak as it recommended toughening up the rules on interference in such inquiries and condemned the behaviour of former ministers.

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