A report by MPs says ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson deliberately misled the Commons over lockdown parties at 10 Downing Street during the coronavirus pandemic. The privileges committee report concluded it would have recommended suspending Johnson from the House for 90 days had he not already stood down as an MP.
The report found he deliberately misled the House of Commons and the committee investigating him while he also impugned the committee and was “complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the committee". Though his resignation means he will escape that punishment the committee recommended that he should not receive the pass granting access to Parliament which is normally given to former MPs. Mr Johnson hit out at what he called a "deranged conclusion", accusing the Tory-majority group of MPs he has repeatedly sought to disparage of lying.
Outlined in the report are the five key ways they say he misled the house:
