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Evening Standard
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Dominic McGrath,Emma Loffhagen and William Mata

What is the Privileges Committee? Report stating Boris Johnson misled parliament is approved

Parliament has voted to uphold the finding of the Commons privileges committee that Boris Johnson knowingly misled lawmakers by claiming all lockdown rules had been followed.

The report last week found that the then-prime minister repeatedly violated the law with his Partygate denials and that if he had not resigned as an MP he should have been expelled from the Commons for 90 days.

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