Boris Johnson and the Partygate scandal are back in the headlines this week as a committee of MPs rules on whether or not the former prime minister essentially lied to parliament when he said Covid rules were followed in Downing Street during lockdown.
The cross-party privileges committee has already said, in an interim report, that there is evidence showing that rule breaches would have been “obvious” to Mr Johnson, who was forced to resign last year partly due to the affair.
