More from Johnson's former Uxbridge constituency now.

Book shop owner and Conservative voter Carole McMillan says: “I’m a Boris fan. It’s very hard for me to give a view because I didn’t lose anybody in the pandemic”, she says.

"From my point of view I like him and they need to let it go. But that’s my opinion. I think he’s the best of the bunch. I think he’s been stitched up rotten. They all lie. There’s worse things going on in the world.” Asked if she had any regrets about voting for Boris Johnson, Carole replied: “Not at all. I’d vote for him again. I think it was a bit cowardly for him to run off. He’s just left us.

"Most times it’s been Conservative here but he’s left it wide open for the Labour Party now because no one knows who to vote for any more.”

Emma Owen
Live reporter

Half-way through the day already - so time for a recap.

The long-anticipated report by MPs into whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament over Covid lockdown parties in No 10 came out at 9am. Amongst several findings it says:

• Johnson deliberately misled the Commons about what he knew about gatherings

• He misled the privileges committee whilst they were carrying out their duties
• He was also complicit in a "campaign of abuse" against the MPs investigating him

A Commons ban of 90 days would have been recommended if Johnson hadn't stepped down as an MP last week.

Our colleagues at Westminster have summarised the key findings in an article you can find here.

Here on the live team we're going to keep watching for more reaction - from the main opposition parties, from people in Boris Johnson's constituency of Uxbridge, and from BBC readers and listeners.

We're waiting to hear what Prime Minister Rishi Sunak thinks about the report.

And of course, we'll post further analysis from our political editor Chris Mason, as he continues to assess the mood in Westminster and across the country.

The SNP's Westminster leader Stephen Flynn says the report confirms what was already known - that Johnson repeatedly lied to the public and to Parliament, which was an "extremely serious matter".

Johnson's legal costs for this inquiry - paid for by the public - should be recouped, his allowance as a former PM removed, and his honours list "put in the bin", Flynn argues, claiming Johnson has "disgraced his office".

Flynn adds that this is a "stark reminder" for voters in Scotland that if they do not want people like Boris Johnson running their affairs, they should back Scottish independence.

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More on the Commons debate of the Privileges Committee report scheduled for Monday.

The motion will be "voteable, it will be amendable and it is House business and so I am expecting a free vote", Penny Mordaunt said.

She added: "These are difficult matters for the House, we have to look at the evidence, we have to look at the report.

"But all of us must do what we think is right and others must leave us alone to do so."

We've just been hearing from Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner, who describes Boris Johnson as a "pound-shop Trump" over his response to the damning Privileges Committee report.

She accuses him of showing contempt for the parliamentary process, adding that he has let down those who put "so much trust, faith and confidence" in him.

"Boris Johnson is not only a law breaker but he's a liar," she says.

Asked for her thoughts on Johnson's allegation that the committee had an agenda against him, Rayner says: "I think it's a load of rubbish, and he knows it... That's why he's resigned.

"He needs to apologise for what he's put the public through - he won't though because Boris Johnson never accepts responsibility for what he does."

We’ve got some reaction to the publication of the report from Uxbridge, where Boris Johnson was an MP before resigning on Friday.

“I think the committee was right to get rid of Boris completely. He shouldn’t even be allowed in Parliament any more”, says market stall holder and Conservative voter Mario Sergiou.

“He’s been a mockery ever since lockdown, a joke. As nice a person as he is - he’s got a great character - he’s not an MP. He should stick to playing around outside Parliament.”

Asked if Boris Johnson was right to brand the Privileges Committee a “kangaroo court”, Sergiou replied: “Nonsense, absolute nonsense. They’re right to do what they’re doing. We need to get some normality back into politics, dealing with the problems. There’s a lot going on.”

MPs will debate the Privileges Committee report into Boris Johnson's conduct on Monday, Commons leader Penny Mordaunt has just said.

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As well as the six gatherings the inquiry has focussed on, the committee has also commented on evidence of a further 16 gatherings at No 10 and at Chequers - the prime minister's country home - during the pandemic.

The committee received evidence from the government of potential Covid breaches on 18 May, with a statement saying it was identified from Johnson's ministerial diary entries.

The committee disclosed the material to Johnson the following day after assessing it was relevant to the inquiry.

Johnson's lawyers subsequently supplied explanations for each event as to why they were lawful.

"None of the events referred to in the documents constitute breaches of Covid regulations and nobody has ever raised any concerns whatsoever with Mr Johnson about them," his lawyers said in a statement.

"Mr Johnson does not accept that any of the events are relevant to the Privileges Committee's investigation."

The committee said it had no evidence conflicting with his account, but added: "If for any reasons it subsequently emerges that Mr Johnson's explanations are not true, then he may have committed a further contempt”.

Chris Mason
Political editor

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Catapulted first to the backbenches and now out of Parliament too, the demolition of Mr Johnson's career by his own peers has been brutally quick.

Remember, today isn't about parties during Covid.

It is about the fundamental pillars upon which public life - and society at large - is constructed.

Conduct. Behaviour. Believability. Integrity.

The sanctity of truth. The contempt for lies.

The crux of Mr Johnson's defence is this was cock-up, not conspiracy.

Some will wonder if this report - as punishingly brutal as it is - may motivate a martyrdom, may rally support.

One minister said to me: "Boris is the sort of bloke who could fall down a manhole head first and still land on his feet."

But this is one heck of a manhole.

Full blog here

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The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group says the committee's verdict is "another grim reminder" of how the former PM broke his own rules "so he could have a party and a laugh" as families "were saying goodbye to loved ones over Zoom".

"Johnson has shown no remorse," spokesman David Garfinkel said.

"Instead he lied to our faces when he told us that he’d done 'all he could' to protect our loved ones. He lied again when he said the rules hadn’t been broken in number 10, and he’s lied ever since when he’s denied it again and again.

"It’s an utter tragedy that Johnson was in charge when the pandemic struck and he should never be allowed to stand for any form of public office again”, Garfinkel added.

Political correspondent Rob Watson has been reading through the report.

"If you think about the several hundred year history of parliament, there's nothing like this."

See more from Rob below.

Liz in Harrogate spoke to 5 Live and said the report has restored her faith in Parliament.

She was upset by an earlier listener who said they had flaunted the rules, whilst her father died of Covid and they had to have a six-person funeral.

"My mother couldn't even put a carnation on his coffin. We couldn't hug her. It was barbaric."

And on the government, she said "I don't care how hard they were working," there should be no excuses.

She thinks Johnson's response was "typical Boris. He's just so full of himself and his own self importance it's beyond a joke."

However, Jen in Whitley Bay is a Johnson supporter.

"I think it's a big stitch up. I'm so annoyed about it because they're all liars, I'm sure they are, apart from him.

"They've really, really gunned him down, I'm really so upset about it. I feel so sorry for Boris, they just want him out."

She added that she thinks Johnson did a really good job as prime minister.

Dave in Leicester has also called 5 Live. He retired in November 2020 after working in a police facility where he said they followed the rules fastidiously.

"But," he adds, "I had a gathering in the office. To follow the rules and the guidance to the letter is impossible. So we followed the spirit of it."

He said that it's inhuman to be able to follow them fully, but they followed "as best we could".

He voted for Johnson.

Caller Shirley Sweeney from Cornwall has admitted on 5 Live that she broke the rules.

During the pandemic, the county was busy and filled with visitors. She said the beaches were packed.

"So, are we going to say that Boris is to blame when millions and millions of people broke the rules?

"The thing is that I still broke the rules. I know what Boris did was wrong, but there are so many people that will not stand up and be candid and say 'yes, I broke the rules'.

"As far as I was concerned Nicky, I think these rules were absolute nonsense."

We've been listening to Nicky Campbell’s phone-in on Radio 5 Live this morning, where he has been hearing what people think about the report.

Tim, from Coventry, worked at a supermarket during the pandemic. He said the rules were made to clear to them.

"We couldn't have gatherings. We stopped doing daily huddles... it was also the rule for funerals so I can't understand how a former prime minster can understand the rules for funerals but can't understand the rules for parties."

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He added that he agrees with the committee's findings.

"If the prime minister of our country didn't understand the rules that he himself was imposing on us... as far as I'm concerned good riddance to bad rubbish."

Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey has described Boris Johnson as "a liar and law-breaker" on Twitter., external

"He's treated the public with utter disdain”, he writes.

"And while these Conservatives fight among themselves again, the country suffers. People are fed up.

"Rishi Sunak should call a General Election and give people the chance to end this charade."

Johnson allies will go to war over report's findingspublished at 10:15 British Summer Time 15 June 2023

10:15 BST 15 June 2023

Nick Eardley
Chief political correspondent

Boris Johnson is a politician who has often defied political gravity.

He has got away with things in the past which would have ended the careers of others.

But can he ever return to front-line politics after these conclusions?

It’s hard to see how a politician found to have deliberately misled Parliament can recover.

The extent of the breaches found by this committee is considerable.

But you can expect Mr Johnson’s allies to go to war – trying to undermine the committee and its findings.

They’ll argue it was unfair and goes too far.

Johnson’s allies are sharing an "I'm backing Boris" image on social media to show their support for the former prime minister.

Brendan Clark-Smith was one of the first to post the image, which asks people to "share to back Boris".

The MP for Bassetlaw tweeted, external: "I am appalled at what I have read and the spiteful, vindictive and overreaching conclusions of the report.

"I won’t be supporting the recommendations and will be speaking against them both publicly and in the House on Monday.

"I’m backing fairness and justice - not kangaroo courts."

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Boris Johnson ends his fierce rebuttal to the report by calling it a "charade" that has "twisted the truth".

He says the report marks "a dreadful day for MPs and for democracy" and accuses the Privileges Committee of functioning in an "anti-democratic way".

He adds that he considers the findings "the final knife-thrust in a protracted political assassination – that is beneath contempt”.

He ends his statement by saying: “It is for the people of this country to decide who sits in Parliament, not Harriet Harman."

Johnson says it's impossible for the committee to know exactly what he did or didn't see on one occasion.

"They say, without any evidence whatsoever, that at 21:58, on that date, (18 Dec) my eyes for one crucial second glanced over to the media room as I went up to the flat – and that I saw what I recognised as an unauthorised event in progress”, he says.

“First, the committee has totally ignored the general testimony about that evening, which is that people were working throughout, even if some had been drinking at their desks. How on earth do these clairvoyants know exactly what was going on at 21.58?

“What retinal impressions have they somehow discovered, that are completely unavailable to me?"

In his statement, Boris Johnson also directs his ire at Sir Bernard Jenkin - a senior Tory MP on the Privileges Committee.

He says Sir Bernard should have recused himself from the inquiry after the Guido Fawkes website alleged he attended a drinks party for his wife's birthday in the House of Commons in December 2020. At the time social mixing outside of households or support bubbles was banned in London.

Having contacted several people involved in the allegations, the BBC has not been able to independently verify the claims. Sir Bernard, Lady Jenkin and the alleged host of the gathering have been approached for comment.