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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Aubrey Allegretti

Partygate hearings could be put back to new year after No 10 delay

Boris Johnson
The committee sought information including Boris Johnson’s diaries, event email invites, No 10 entry logs, briefing papers and WhatsApp messages. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

The privileges committee inquiry into whether Boris Johnson misled the Commons may be delayed until January, after No 10 finally handed over a cache of evidence relating to Partygate four months after it was requested.

The Guardian understands that the autumn target for beginning oral evidence sessions, in which the former prime minister will be called as a witness, has been abandoned. Instead, sources said the highly anticipated sessions could be pushed back to after Christmas.

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