Moment Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs on following Covid guidelines
Rishi Sunak was accused of being “too weak” to block Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list in a fiery Prime Minister’s Questions dominated by peerages.
Labour leader Keir Starmer challenged the prime minister to explain why the Tory Party had spent “then last week arguing over which of them gets a peerage”.
“Is he’s so tough, why didn’t he block it?” Sir Keir asked – before saying honours should be for “public service, not Tory cronies”.
Elsewhere, the privileges committee is expected to say in its report that Mr Johnson deliberately misled parliament over parties in Downing Street during the pandemic. The report is expected to be finally made public on Thursday.
The committee has rejected the former prime minister’s defence that senior officials advised him Covid rules and guidance had been followed in No 10, according to The Times.
