Boris Johnson’s allies have hit back with fury at the “vindictive” privileges committee report which found the former PM guilty of deliberately misleading the Commons over lockdown parties – and a litany of other wrongdoings.
The utterly scathing verdict of the majority-Tory committee was that Johnson’s behaviour, including being “complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation” of the privileges committee amounted to “an attack on democratic institutions”.
It recommended that he be suspended from the Commons for 90 days. Johnson announced his resignation as an MP on Friday.
