MPs have voted to approve a report which found Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over parties at Downing Street during lockdown
Johnson would have faced a 90-day suspension if he were still an MP - but he quit after being sent the report's findings in advance
The report also recommended he should not be allowed a pass which lets ex-MPs freely access Parliament
Labour say Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - who was not at the debate - is "too weak" to stand up to Johnson
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Thangam Debbonaire
Boris Johnson hasn't held back when it comes to criticism of the committee, previously describing it as a "kangaroo court", and said its report on his behaviour was a "witch hunt".
Labour's Thangam Debbonaire references this language, saying: "He kept these terms in his back pocket for when things didn't go his way."
Green MP Caroline Lucas says abstaining on this vote is "wholly wrong".
To remind you, some Tory MPs have already said they'll abstain from any vote, including Housing Secretary Michael Gove.
Lucas says such MPs are guilty "not just of cowardice, but of complicity of the very contempt that Boris Johnson has been found responsible".
Now onto Mordaunt's counterpart - Labour's shadow leader of the House of Commons Thangam Debbonaire.
"Colleagues across the House are decent people and I urge them not to follow [Boris] Johnson's example," she tells MPs.
Back to Mordaunt who says it is right for the government to be scrutinised and held in check.
Mordaunt says "respect matters" as does "accountability".
"All members should do what is right, others should leave them alone to do so," Mordaunt concludes.
Penny Mordaunt says she'll vote in favour of the report
Penny Mordaunt says she will support the motion to approve the Privileges Committee's report into Boris Johnson's conduct, following a direct question from her Labour counterpart Thangam Debbonaire.
But she says it is for each MP for themselves to work out how to vote on the matter.
Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt confirms that the report is both a free vote - meaning MPs can vote how they like, rather than being steered by their party's wishes - and amendable.
But she says no amendments have been tabled so far.
Penny Mordaunt speaking in the debate
Penny Mordaunt tells the House the government respects the important constitutional principles of the committee - hence why she has allowed today's debate.
"The Privileges Committee exists to defend our rights and privileges in this place," she says.
It comes after Boris Johnson criticised the committee as a "kangaroo court".
Image source, UK parliamentPenny Mordaunt opens the debate
Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt is now speaking, which means the debate on the Privileges Committee's report into Boris Johnson has begun.
We'll bring you all the key lines here - stick with us.
Image source, PA MediaBoris Johnson’s list of allies may appear to be shrinking, but he still commands the support of several influential figures in Parliament – some of whom he had recommended in his honours list for a position in the House of Lords.
The big three are Nadine Dorries, Priti Patel and Jacob Rees-Mogg – all of whom served in Johnson’s cabinet and have staunchly backed their former boss.
Amanda Milling, Michael Fabricant, Simon Clarke, Jake Berry and Brendan Clarke-Smith are also standing by the former prime minister.
Iain Watson
Political correspondent
You would expect former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's supporters to be jumping up in down in the Commons this afternoon and arguing that he has been stitched up.
But some say they won’t turn up at all – they will boycott proceedings.
And Johnson himself isn’t encouraging his backers to push for a vote on the report.
Critics say that’s because he is wary of exposing a lack of widespread support.
As things stand, it may be that we get some verbal attacks on the work of the committee this afternoon, but when the debate concludes, there is no formal, recorded vote – or division.
So we have the prospect of fireworks during the debate, while its conclusion could resemble more of a damp squib.
Sam Francis
Political reporter
Timings in the House of Commons are rarely an exact science - but we're expecting the debate to begin in about half an hour, at 16:30 BST.
The first speakers will be Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt, who is tabling the motion on the report into Boris Johnson.
We expect she'll be followed by her opposite number, Labour's Thangam Debbonaire.
Harriet Harman, the Labour grandee who chaired the inquiry into Boris Johnson, is expecting to begin speaking at 17:30.
The timings of the conclusion, and potential vote, are harder to pin down.
MPs must complete a vote on the motion, then start and finish another debate - on the UK tech industry - before 22:00.
How they divide their time until then is entirely up to the MPs in the chamber.
We've been warned that there is a lengthy list of speakers wanting to contribute, and whips are expecting "things to run late".
Iain Watson
Political correspondent
In parliamentary terms, today is momentous.
Apart from Boris Johnson, no other prime minister has been found to have misled Parliament deliberately.
So now a man who was prime minister a year ago faces being stripped of his parliamentary pass, and denounced for lying to Parliament repeatedly.
The conclusions of the cross-party Privileges Committee has made Johnson himself very cross.
He called them "deranged" - and described the committee itself as a "kangaroo court".
Let's briefly cross to the House of Commons, where Home Secretary Suella Braverman is making a statement about stop-and-search powers.
She's referring to a letter she sent to all 43 police forces in England and Wales, telling them to "ramp up" the use of stop-and-search.
You can read more on that story here.
We're expecting the debate on the report into Boris Johnson after Braverman's statement.
First things first, it's unlikely the prime minister will attend this afternoon's debate - and potential vote - on the report into his old boss Boris Johnson.
A little earlier, Downing Street said Sunak was meeting the Swedish prime minister and has a "series of meetings [and] an evening commitment".
Sunak was repeatedly asked how he'd vote when talking to reporters on Sunday evening - but he didn't answer the question directly.
He said it wasn't a government matter, and therefore "I wouldn't want to influence anyone in advance of that vote."
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While much of the Partygate news is behind us, more evidence continues to emerge about gatherings held while pandemic restrictions were in place.
Conservative activists filmed dancing at a Christmas party during Covid restrictions in 2020 were invited to "jingle and mingle", according to an invitation seen by the BBC.
Our colleague Phil Kemp reports that 30 people were invited to the event at Conservative Party headquarters on 14 December, when indoor socialising was banned in London.
The Metropolitan Police are reviewing video of the event, first published by the Mirror, which shows people drinking and standing in groups and man and a woman holding hands and dancing.
One person can be heard saying it is OK to film "as long as we don't stream that we're, like, bending the rules".
Read more here.
Image source, ReutersFormer Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been investigated over his claims that all Covid rules were followed while he was in Downing Street, following details of parties which emerged in the media in late 2021.
A committee of MPs, called the Privileges Committee, were tasked with investigating whether he deliberately misled MPs.
The report, published on Thursday, found he had - and also had “personal knowledge” of rule breaking.
Johnson resigned as an MP last week, publicly attacking the committee before it published its report. This led to the committee increasing the recommended sanction against him to a 90-day suspension - but of course he'd already stood down by that point.
MPs are debating the report today - and may vote later on whether to accept its recommendations.
Dulcie Lee
Live reporter
It’s a big day for Boris Johnson. Firstly, he turns 59 today, and secondly MPs are going to discuss, and potentially vote on, a committee report published last week which found him to have misled Parliament.
On Thursday, the Privileges Committee published a 30,000-word report on their investigation into Johnson, recommending he be suspended as an MP for 90 days (he'd already resigned by that point though).
Today, MPs will debate the report's findings, which may take up several hours.
What’s not yet clear is if they’ll actually vote on whether to accept the recommendations - that'll become clear later on.
What is clear though, is that we'll be here through it all - with breaking lines and expert analysis.