Boris Johnson has intensified his attacks on the Parliamentary committee investigating the Partygate scandal, which is to announce in the coming days its verdict on whether the former prime minister lied to MPs about lockdown parties in Downing Street.
The House of Commons Privileges Committee, led by Labour MP Harriet Harman but has a Conservative majority, has been investigating whether Johnson misled Parliament when he repeatedly claimed COVID-19 rules had been “followed at all times” during the pandemic.
A photograph obtained by ITV News of then Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a leaving party in Downing Street, London, on Nov. 13. 2020. (ITV/PA Media)
The verdict has not been publicly announced, but Johnson quit as an MP on Friday, accusing the committee of trying to drive him out of Parliament and calling its investigation into the partygate scandal a “kangaroo court.”…