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Boris Johnson insisted he was in no contempt of the House of Commons and that an investigation into whether he misled MPs would justify it – after a report said evidence strongly suggested breaches of the coronavirus rules would have been obvious to him during Partygate.

The Cross-Party Privileges Committee said the House of Commons, which is investigating for whether the former prime minister lied to MPs may have been misled at least four times as she staged a live showdown with the former prime minister later this month.

According to written evidence in a recently published interim report, Mr Johnson remarked that a going away party amid the pandemic at No 10 was ‘probably the most non-socially distanced gathering in the UK at this time. moment".

The WhatsApp messages given to the survey show you advisers are struggling to explain how parties played by the rules, one conceding an apology blew “another big gaping hole in the Prime Minister’s account”.

Mr. Johnson hinted that Civil Services investigator Sue Gray was "not on his side" after rising to a senior position in the office of Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer.