U.K. lawmakers endorsed the findings of a probe that concluded former Prime Minister Boris Johnson repeatedly and deliberately misled lawmakers, and stripped him of the right to the automatic access to Parliament enjoyed by former members.
The House of Commons voted 354-7 late on Monday to approve the damning report into what Johnson had told lawmakers about the “Partygate” scandal — a series of pandemic-era gatherings in Westminster that broke the COVID-19 rules the government itself had imposed.
The motion was awkward for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who faced balancing the competing demands of avoiding inflaming an internal Conservative Party row and reinforcing his pledge to restore integrity to government. In the event, he sidestepped the debate, drawing claims of weakness from the opposition Labour Party.
