The five ways Boris Johnson miseld the Commons over partygate

A cross-party investigation has found that the former Prime Minister made "repeated contempt" of parliament by misleading MPs over the partygate scandal.

If Boris Johnson didn't quit the Commons ahead of the publishing of the report, the Privilege Committee recommended a 90-day suspension which would likely have resulted in a by-election for his seat. Because of his resignation, Mr Johnson will avoid the punishment, however, the committee recommended that he not receive the pass granting access to Parliament - this is usually handed out to former MPs.

Despite this, Mr Johnson called the result a 'deranged conclusion' and added the 14-month investigation delivered “what is intended to be the final knife-thrust in a protracted political assassination”. The committed concluded that Mr Johnson deliberately misled MPs by insisting all rules had been followed in Downing Street.

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They added that he also committed contempt for undermining the democratic processes of the Commons and being "complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the committee". The committee said in the report: “We came to the view that some of Mr Johnson’s denials and explanations were so disingenuous that they were by their very nature deliberate attempts to mislead the committee and the House, while others demonstrated deliberation because of the frequency with which he closed his mind to the truth.”

Here are the five ways Mr Johnson misled the commons, according to its report...

Boris Johnson misled the Commons in five different ways, the Privileges Committee has found. In its report, the committee said the former prime minister had misled the Commons by:

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