Mr Johnson resigned days before the report was formally published
The Northampton MP who repeatedly defended Boris Johnson in the House of Commons should apologise, an election rival has said. Sir Michael Ellis, the Conservative MP for Northampton North, repeatedly told MPs in 2021 and 2022 that Mr Johnson was a “man of honour” and there was “absolutely no indication” he had misled the Commons over lockdown parties.
Last week, the Commons’ cross-party Privileges Committee found Mr Johnson had deliberately misled the House of Commons about his knowledge of lockdown parties. . In December 2021, January 2022, April 2022 and June 2022, Sir Michael defended Mr Johnson as a member of the government to MPs. In June 2022 he said he would not have appeared at the dispatch box to support Mr Johnson unless he had been “more than satisfied” that information from Mr Johnson was correct. Mrs Rigby said: “Given the Privileges Committee’s clear findings that Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament about his lockdown parties, it’s only right that his denier in chief, Michael Ellis, apologises for his repeated defences of what was clearly completely indefensible.
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