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The Commons Standards Committee chair said discipline should be taken out of the hands of party whips and given to an independent body.

Dame Priti Patel acknowledged there is no single solution but suggested ministers need to go further.

Boris Johnson committed a “serious contempt” of Parliament and repeatedly misled UK lawmakers about rule-breaking parties in Downing Street during the pandemic, according to a long-awaited probe which despite its largely unsurprising findings still shocked with the severity of its indictment of the former prime minister.

The First Minister described the report into Boris Johnson over Partygate as a "dark chapter" in the history of Westminster.

A summit in Paris this month offers a way to tackle this disastrous failure, but only if western leaders bother to turn up, says the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott

'Boris Johnson has exploded with a vast stream of incoherent nonsense, like a volcano spewing out lava... More lies, more evasions, more refusal to accept responsibility," says Sir Chris Bryant

Johnson's resignation means that he will escape the suspension, however, the committee recommend that he should not receive the pass granting access to Parliament - which is normally given to former MPs

It’s by-election season in Westminster — and more’s at stake than simply whether Team Boris’s kamikaze mission to wound Rishi Sunak with three MP resignations will have its desired effect. After the former prime minister and his two supporters – Nigel Adams and Nadine Dorries – quit in a row…

Alongside Mr Johnson, a number of MPs have been found to have broken lockdown rules