BORIS Johnson faces a double grilling from MPs today as he appears at the Liaison Committee after PMQs.
The Prime Minister is battling to keep his position as his Cabinet falls apart around him, having lost a chancellor, health secretary and a number of junior ministers in the last 24 hours – all over his handling of the Chris Pincher scandal.
After Johnson goes up against Keir Starmer, Ian Blackford and other party leaders in the Commons at midday, he faces tough questions on Pincher and other topics from committee chiefs later in the afternoon.
That is likely to be a particularly brutal grilling, with the committee, chaired by Sir Bernard Jenkin, peopled with a host of Tory MPs far from sympathetic to his leadership.
Education Select Committee chairman and Tory MP Rob Halfon, one of those who will question the Prime Minister, may pose a problem for Johnson during the session.
He said he would back a change in leadership, criticising not only a “real loss of integrity” but also “a failure of policy”.
One of the opposition MPs putting questions to the Tory chief will be SNP MP Angus MacNeil, the chairman of the International Trade Committee.
The session is set to begin at 3pm and will be available to watch here.
