BREAKING: Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Partgate defence dossier has been published by the Privileges Committee.
Former Prime MinisterMr Johnson is battling to save his political career and in the 50-page document the Tory MP has saidHe says the only evidence that he intentionally misled the Commons is from the ‘discredited Dominic Cummings’, and that Cummings’ assertions are not ‘supported by any documentation’
‘The revelations in Sue Gray’s report shocked the public, and they shocked me. I therefore begin by renewing my apologies to the British people for what happened on my watch. In the document, he says that the ‘vast majority of individuals’ who have given evidence to the privileges committee ‘have not indicated that they considered their attendance in breach of the law’
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