Boris Johnson took us for fools. Now we have proof

No one wants to talk about the pandemic anymore. Not even partygate. Understandably so: we’ve all put hard work into suppressing and burying miserable memories over that two-year period. Why dredge it all back up? 

But as one of the people in this country who still deeply cares about partygate – the hypocrisy of it, the abuse of power – I simply want to say that today’s report from the Privileges Committee into whether Boris Johnson misled parliament is remarkable. It’s a delivery of justice that the Sue Gray report wasn’t: one which some of us have quietly been holding out for. 

If you don’t have hours today to go through the full 30,000 words published on this inquiry and its findings, I’d highly recommend taking a look at pages 14 to 32. This is the breakdown of six specific gatherings, what happened at them, and what Boris Johnson can be assumed to have known at the time (he attended five of the six).