The Mancunian Way: Let them eat cake

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Boris Johnson today became the first Prime Minister to be found to have deliberately misled the House of Commons as the damning report into Partygate was finally pubished. In today's Mancunian Way we'll examine some of the fall-out from the scandal and hear what leaders here in Greater Manchester have to say about it.

Elsewhere, on the anniversary of the 1996 IRA attack on Manchester, we'll look back at how the city recovered from one of the darkest days in its history. We'll also find out what the authorities say caused the deaths of thousands of fish in Salford Quays

And we'll discover the 'shameful secret' M.E.N. food writer Ben Arnold has finally got off his chest.

The privileges committee report doesn't go so far as to say Boris Johnson 'lied' to MPs over whether Covid rules were broken in 10 Downing Street. The phrase it uses is 'misled'.

Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner has no time for such semantic niceties though. “Boris Johnson is not only a law-breaker but a liar," the Ashton MP told broadcasters this morning.

“He’s not fit for public office and he’s disgraced himself and continues to act like a pound-shop Trump in the way in which he tries to discredit anybody who criticises his actions when actually, a decent public servant would have done the honourable thing, would have had a little bit of humility and would have apologised to the British public for what they put them through.”

Johnson dramatically quit as an MP on Friday night before the panel's recommendations -