Boris Johnson: MPs to vote on report that said ex-PM misled Parliament

MPs volition determine aboriginal whether to endorse a study that recovered Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament implicit lockdown parties successful No 10.

A year-long enquiry from the Commons privileges committee said the erstwhile premier curate committed repeated offences with his Partygate denials.

It recommends helium should person been suspended from the Commons for 90 days if helium had remained an MP.

Rishi Sunak is yet to corroborate whether helium volition ballot connected its findings.

It volition beryllium a escaped ballot for Tory MPs, meaning enactment managers - known arsenic whips - volition not instruct them what to bash astatine the vote, which is expected to instrumentality spot connected Monday evening aft a debate.

It is apt that immoderate Conservative MPs could abstain oregon not crook up to instrumentality part.

Housing Secretary Michael Gove, who besides served successful Mr Johnson's cabinet, has confirmed helium intends to abstain - becoming the lone subordinate of the Sunak authorities to accidental what helium intends to do.

Speaking connected Sunday, helium told the BBC determination were areas wherever Mr Johnson's behaviour had fallen abbreviated of expectations, but helium disagreed with the report's proposal for a 90-day suspension.

The ballot is tricky politically for the premier minister, who is embroiled successful a bitter warfare of words with his erstwhile brag implicit his resignation honours list.

Mr Sunak vowed to enactment "integrity" astatine the bosom of his authorities upon entering Downing Street, and volition beryllium nether unit from absorption MPs to o.k. the findings from the cross-party committee.

But voting for it would enrage Mr Johnson's supporters, immoderate of whom person attacked the committee implicit their conclusions.

Mr Johnson himself besides lashed retired astatine the committee successful an angry statement announcing his resignation arsenic an MP earlier the report's publication, branding it a "kangaroo court".

Commons votes are initially conducted by voice, with a part - wherever MPs spell done the voting lobbies to grounds their enactment - lone called if the Speaker thinks the effect is not obvious.

Opposition MPs are expected to outcry "aye" aboriginal to o.k. the report, but if nary MP successful the enclosure shouts "no" past determination won't beryllium a division, meaning the votes of idiosyncratic MPs volition not beryllium recorded.

In their report, the privileges committee said Mr Johnson had deliberately misled MPs erstwhile helium assured them aft the Partygate ungraded emerged that lockdown rules had ever been followed successful No 10.

Mr Johnson argued during the enquiry that his assurances were made successful bully faith, and were based connected proposal from officials.

But the MPs recovered helium had "personal knowledge" of rule-breaking events, and had failed to "pro-actively" analyse allegations that Covid rules had been breached during the pandemic.

They concluded helium had committed aggregate "contempts" of Parliament - including by attacking the committee, which they added justified the 90-day ban, which is lengthy by the standards of caller years.

The study besides recommends that Mr Johnson should beryllium denied a parliamentary pass, which helium would usually beryllium entitled to arsenic an ex-MP.

Several of Mr Johnson's allies person heaped disapproval connected the committee for its findings.

Nadine Dorries, who was civilization caput successful Mr Johnson's cabinet, said the committee had "overreached," informing that immoderate Tory MP voting to endorse it would beryllium "held to account" by enactment members.

However, it is not wide however galore of his allies are yet consenting to crook up to registry their opposition.