The Latest Breaking News from the Privileges Committee

His resignation statement on Friday came just hours after the Government published his long-awaited resignation honours list.

He believes there is a plot to 'drive him out'

The disgraced former PM said he was 'bewildered and appalled that I'm being forced out’ as he announced he would quit as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip immediately

The prime minister has quit over a privileges committee investigation into his conduct

The Madras High Court closed a batch of writ appeals filed in 2020 by the then Tamil Nadu Assembly Secretary and the Privileges Committee against an interim stay order passed by a single judge in September that year against the breach of privilege proceedings initiated against then Leader of Opposition…

The former prime minister could face suspension from the Commons or even a by-election if the committee finds him in contempt of Parliament

The former prime minister could face suspension from the Commons or even a by-election if the committee finds him in contempt of Parliament.

The relatively short political careers of most of our MPs raises questions about the way Parliament functions, and the operation of our system of government

The backing comes after the former prime minister hit out at the Cabinet Office for handing entries from his diary during the pandemic to the police

The backing comes after the former prime minister hit out at the Cabinet Office for handing entries from his diary during the pandemic to the police.

The former prime minister said entries in his official diary handed over to police ‘merely record events in my day’