Boris Johnson was unaware at the time. But the most flamboyant, divisive, controversial Tory politician of recent decades finally ran out of political road in a quiet room in the House of Commons last Tuesday morning.
It was then, at 10am, that the seven MPs – four of them Conservatives – who have been conducting an inquiry into whether he misled parliament over Partygate, met in secret in committee room 20, and in effect sealed his fate. Chaired by Labour’s Harriet Harman, the privileges committee was unanimous in its decision across party lines.
