Boris Johnson set to submit Partygate dossier, saying he didn’t deliberately mislead MPs – UK politics live

Former PM expected to attack privileges committee inquiry as unfair before appearing before committee on Wednesday

Good morning. Boris Johnson’s comeback prospects were never particularly strong at the start of the year and since Rishi Sunak unveiled his Northern Ireland protocol deal – which showed that Conservative MPs mostly want to move on from the Johnson-era war of attrition with the EU, as Johnson admitted himself in a revealing and defeatist speech – he has looked even more irrelevant to any serious debate about the party’s future. But he still has an unrivalled ability to command media attention and, even though his appearance before the Commons privileges committee is more than 48 hours away, he is still dominating some of the front pages.

Two and a half weeks ago the committee published new evidence about how Johnson may have misled MPs about Partygate. “The evidence strongly suggests that breaches of guidance would have been obvious to Mr Johnson at the time he was at the gatherings,” the committe said in its report.

The committee will find Boris did not mislead parliament. It has to be based on the evidence which is totally in his favour.

He has always said he didn’t mislead parliament and now he will be shown to be right. He is in good spirits and he has a great defence. He is up for it and confident.