Johnson’s ‘dishonest’ excuses over Partygate fine an insult to public, says Starmer – UK politics live, as it happened

10.25pm BST

That’s all from us this evening.

Here’s a summary of the key events from today:

• MPs to get vote on Thursday relating to claims Johnson lied to parliament, Speaker announces.
• No 10 refuses to back Lewis’s claim that PM’s fine for breaking lockdown rules like parking ticket.
• Theresa May says Rwanda plan may be illegal and impractical, and is likely to increase trafficking of women and children.
• Johnson restates apology for lockdown breach, claiming he has ‘even greater’ sense of duty to deliver on priorities of British people.
• Starmer reprimanded by Speaker after telling MPs Johnson is “dishonest”.
• Mark Harper, the former Tory whip, says he no longer thinks Boris Johnson is “worthy of the office he holds”.
• Bereaved relatives of people who died from Covid called Boris Johnson “a liar and a charlatan debasing the office of prime minister”.
• Boris Johnson started his meeting with the 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs by telling them that their government “has got the big calls right”.
• During “bullish” 35-minute private meeting, he repeatedly asked if Tories preferred Labour government to Johnson leadership.
• Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the BBC criticised by PM for views on Rwanda.

Updated at 10.28pm BST

9.43pm BST

NHS Millions, a not-for-profit organisation set up by a team of NHS staff during the pandemic to encourage support for hospital workers, is not satisfied by the PM’s performance in the Commons today – nor the continued support of Conservative MPs at the 1922 Committee meeting this evening.

The group tweeted:

Tory MPs expected NHS staff to have the courage to fight Covid for over two years, and more than 1,500 health and care staff lost their lives.

Yet the majority of them don’t even have the courage to stand up against a proven liar. pic.twitter.com/HlnKG7qkMS

— NHS Million 💙 (@NHSMillion) April 19, 2022