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Watch as MPs vote on the Partygate report on Monday, 19 June, after the Privileges Committee found that Boris Johnson misled Parliament over rule-breaking parties at Downing Street during Covid-19 lockdowns.

This afternoon, MPs decide on whether to endorse a report which found that Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties in Downing Street.

Downing Street said the Prime Minister’s schedule on Monday ‘doesn’t include attending Parliament’.

Officers investigating new evidence including video of ‘Jingle and Mingle’ Christmas party at Tory headquarters

Labour leader Keir Starmer said the tradition of outgoing PM's handing out gongs was 'very hard to justify' and said he would follow Tony Blair's lead by swerving a list if he gets into Downing Street

Campaigners want care leavers and children in care to be given ‘protected characteristics’ status across the UK

The youngest life peer in UK history at the age of 29, the former assistant to Boris Johnson was covering maternity leave in his office

England's 2005 Ashes celebrations were just as memorable as the series itself, with Matthew Hoggard calling Prime Minister Tony Blair a "k**bhead" and Freddie Flintoff boozing in the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street

The Privileges Committee investigated six key gatherings in reaching its conclusions.

Boris Johnson committed a “serious contempt” of Parliament and repeatedly misled UK lawmakers about rule-breaking parties in Downing Street during the pandemic, according to a long-awaited probe which despite its largely unsurprising findings still shocked with the severity of its indictment of the former prime minister.

Long-awaited report concludes Johnson lied to MPs on an ‘unprecedented’ scale