Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has said that people will not thank politicians "if they argue like cats in the sand". He was speaking after Boris Johnson announced he is standing down as an MP with immediate effect after receiving the report into whether he lied to MPs over partygate.
That was not before nominating a number of senior officials who were implicated in the partygate scandal for the honours list. And in an excoriating statement, the former prime minister said a letter from the privileges committee made clear "that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of parliament". Read everything he had to say here.
The cross-party privileges committee, led by Labour MP Harriet Harman, has been assessing whether Mr Johnson misled parliament with his statements claiming all COVID rules and guidance were followed by Number 10 during lockdown gatherings.
