The government has defended spending nearly £130,000 on legal advice about Boris Johnson's Partygate scandal.
Critics have questioned why the public is footing the bill for a report by lawyer Lord Pannick into an inquiry by the privileges committee into whether the ex PM misled Parliament.
Downing Street commissioned the legal advice from the crossbench peer and published it on the Government website, revealing that the QC had ruled the committee was adopting an "unfair procedure" and "fundamentally flawed" approach.
