Guess who’s back — the Boris Johnson charabanc rolls into town once again as the former prime minister unveils the defence he will offer to the Commons Privileges Committee. Their televised hearing tomorrow will see him defending himself against the charge that he knowingly misled Parliament about the scale and frequency of Number 10 parties in lockdown.
Johnson, guided by formidable barrister Lord Pannick, will today air his version of why his presence at Number 10 events, including a birthday gathering in 2020 at which he was either an unaware soul or “ambushed by a cake”, was not evidently outside the “guidance” governing lockdown socialising.
