Boris Johnson is considering staging an extraordinary political comeback if he is cleared by the parliamentary inquiry into partygate, theipaper understands 🔎 janemerrick23 reports
Critics of Mr Johnson inside the Conservative party and elsewhere in Westminster will also find it extraordinary that the ex-PM is considering a return to the political frontline after a record number of ministers resigned from his government in protest at his handling of sleaze.
There is a possibility that the seven-strong committee, which is chaired by the Labour MP Harriet Harman but consists of four Conservative MPs, could be deadlocked over whether to find Mr Johnson inadvertently misled parliament, or whether he did so wilfully. Yet the optimism of Mr Johnson’s camp may be misplaced, as an interim report by the Privileges Committee earlier this month concluded that it should have been “obvious” to the then prime minister that parties were taking place in Downing Street against covid rules.If this week’s hearing goes badly for the ex-PM, and the committee eventually rules against him, Mr Johnson faces the possibility of a recall petition in his seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip – if the Commons votes for it.
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