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Jasmine Allday & Aaron Morris

Good Morning Britain ends abruptly in chaos amid highly charged Boris Johnson debate

Chaos ensued on this morning's edition of Good Morning Britain, as guests furiously debated Boris Johnson's Partygate report. Kate Garraway and Ben Shephard welcomed two guests onto the show during the ITV staple - who were invited to have their say on the former Prime Minister's lockdown scandal.

However, the debate soon turned sour - with Kate and Ben having to step in multiple times to stop the guests from talking. At one point, Kate said that they couldn't speak over each other as neither of them would be heard, as they discussed whether Boris should have his privileges stripped through the report's findings.

As one of the guests fumed over the other's points, the debate continued to spiral out of control - with one, saying: "What has this got to do with what Boris Johnson did?"

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The Mirror reports that the pair then continued to go at it, while Ben and Kate tried to say goodbye to their loyal viewers. Ben said: "I think they're just going to carry on arguing, we'll hand over to Ranvir," while Kate, added: "They're not going to stop, goodbye."

The pair shrugged their shoulders and waved goodbye, as the show then transitioned out to Ranvir Singh - who is standing in for Lorraine Kelly.

In a rebuttal to the report, furious ex-PM Boris cited how he was in a 'kangaroo court', writing in a lengthy statement: "It is now many months since people started to warn me about the intentions of the Privileges Committee. They told me that it was a kangaroo court.

"They told me that it was being driven relentlessly by the political agenda of Harriet Harman, and supplied with skewed legal advice – with the sole political objective of finding me guilty and expelling me from parliament."

The report found that Johnson did mislead MPs by denying that lockdown-busting parties took place within Downing Street. Following on from a probe of more than a year, the Commons Privileges Committee published a shocking 108-page report, which said that Boris had misled Parliament on multiple occasions.

They also said that he would have faced a 90-day ban, should he have not stepped down from his role already. Commons Leader, Penny Mordaunt, said that there will be an MP vote on the report come Monday - which also marks Johnson's 59th birthday.

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