MPs on Partygate inquiry preparing rebuttal dossier against criticisms

Then-PM Boris Johnson during his statement on the Sue Gray report into Downing Street parties during lockdown. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/AFP/Getty Images

MPs investigating Boris Johnson over Partygate are drawing up a rebuttal dossier to criticisms made by a legal expert about the process, as they push to avoid the inquiry being “derailed”.

The privileges committee will issue a staunch defence of its work after being admonished by Lord Pannick, a crossbench peer and QC who claimed it was “proposing to adopt an unfair procedure”.