‘Complete nonsense’: Key moments from Boris Johnson’s Partygate interrogation – video

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was left fighting for his political career after a three-and-a-half hour session of evidence with the privileges committee in parliament on Wednesday. Harriet Harman, chair of the committee, is leading an investigation into whether Johnson deliberately misled MPs about lockdown meetings. The former prime minister insisted ‘hand on heart’ he had not lied to Commons about workplace meetings in Downing Street during the pandemic. Throughout the evidence-gathering session, Johnson repeatedly assured MPs that, to the best of his knowledge, members of his government had acted within guidelines he had set for the rest of the country. Former MP faces suspension from parliament if committee decides he ‘recklessly’ misled the House