PARTY GATE RULING SET TO BE RELEASED AS JOHNSON LASHES OUT AT PRIVILEGE COMMITTEE

A long-awaited report is due Thursday morning on whether Boris Johnson misled Congress with denials from his party.

After a 14-month investigation, the Privileges Committee will release its findings on whether the former prime minister committed disrespect for parliament by recklessly or deliberately misleading parliamentarians by denying he violated lockdown rules. is.

Mr Johnson lashed out at what he called the "Kangaroo Court" commission and dramatically resigned from Congress on Friday after receiving the verdict.

The resignation of the former Conservative Party leader means he will not carry out his mandate, which is expected to result in a long suspension.

It would have taken at least ten days, and had it been approved by the House of Commons, by-elections might have been held in the constituencies of Uxbridge and South Ruislip. His decision to step down preempts such an outcome, as voters were due to go to the polls next month, and will pose a major election challenge for Rishi Sunak.

Mr Johnson's ally Nigel Adams has also resigned, and his great patron Nadine Dries has announced that he will also resign, demanding an answer as to why he was denied the title before formally stepping down from parliament. Johnson's by-election campaign is expected to prolong. Prime minister.

The Privileges Committee report is due to be released around 9am on Thursday and will be about 30,000 words in length.

Mr Johnson said he would clarify his "view" as soon as it was released.

On the eve of his release, he called for the resignation of the top Conservative MP in a final attempt to downplay the majority committee. Following a report on Guido Fawkes' website that Sir Bernard Jenkin went to a parliamentary drinking party during the COVID-19 restrictions in 2020, Sir Bernard Jenkin He called it "gross hypocrisy".

But Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said it was a "typical diversionary tactic" by the former prime minister and "doesn't change the fact that he broke the law and lied about it."

The Financial Times reported that Mr Johnson was guilty of "several" contempt of Congress, including revealing some of the findings of the Congressional bill in his resignation statement last week.

Members of the committee dismissed his defense that senior officials told him that No. 10 COVID-19 rules and guidelines were being followed, according to The Times.

In fact, senior advisers warned him not to claim social distancing guidelines were being followed in the House of Representatives, the paper reported. The seven-member committee's conclusions could be voted on by the House of Representatives next week.

A majority vote for Johnson would be a major rebuke less than a year after he slipped from the top ten.

The FT said the commission will also raise concerns about a member of parliament who criticized the investigation but declined to name it.

Home Secretary Chris Philippe argued that MPs should not be censored, including former Conservative Cabinet Secretary Sir Jacob Leismogg, who described the court as a 'kangaroo court'.

"I don't use those terms to describe the committee, but I think people are free to express their opinions," he told ITV's Peston. "I don't think we should shut our mouths to members of parliament."

Senior Conservative MP Caroline Knox said on the same show that "the psychological drama going on for the former minister, the turmoil of this by-election" is "a distraction" from the country's major problems.