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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aubrey Allegretti Senior political correspondent

‘Parliamentary witch-hunt’: what Johnson’s allies said about the Partygate inquiry

Jacob Rees-Mogg holds a copy of the parliamentary committee report into the conduct of former prime minister Boris Johnson outside the Houses of Parliament in London.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is one of several MPs named in the privileges committee report for comments he made about the Partygate inquiry. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Evidence of attempts to undermine or interfere in the parliamentary inquiry into Boris Johnson’s Partygate denials has been laid out by the Commons privileges committee.

It took the significant step of naming a number of the former prime minister’s allies – and attached examples of commentary on TV, in newspapers and across social media.

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