Lawbreaker and liar

Report says Johnson DID mislead House on Partygate, He fibbed to MPs grilling him and 'complicit' in intimidation

- JOHN STEVENS, BEN GLAZE and LIZZY BUCHAN

BORIS Johnson's shameful litany of lies finally caught up with him yesterday as MPs ruled he repeatedly and deliberately misled Parliament on Partygate.

The Privileges Committee also accused the disgraced former PM of being "complicit" in a campaign to intimidate its members who were tasked with investigating him.

And it said Johnson continued with his lies even as MPs grilled him on them and then breached Commons rules by leaking the damning report's findings before they were published.

The 106-page paper exposes as hollow his claims that "all guidance was followed in No10" during 2020's illegal lockdown parties, first revealed by the Mirror in December 2021.

Labour's Thangam Debbonaire said: "The evidence in this report is damning and the conclusions the committee came to are clear. Boris Johnson is a law-breaker and a liar."

DISDAIN

Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper added: "This should be the final nail in the coffin for Boris Johnson's political career.

"It is completely unprecedented for a former Prime Minister to be found to have been a law-breaker and serial liar, who treated the public and Parliament with total disdain."