Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg named as Boris Johnson allies who launched attacks on partygate committee

Shortly after the Privileges Committee, headed by MP Harriet Harman, found that Boris Johnson knowingly misled parliament on several occasions surrounding the partygate scandal during the pandemic, the committee named allies of the former prime minister who waged campaigns to undermine the investigation.

Boris Johnson sensationally resigned as an MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip after receiving the damning report a few days before its publication before slamming the Privileges Committee as a 'kangaroo court'.

Following this, in a report published on Thursday morning, Harriet Harman alongside Sir Bernard Jenkins and five other members of the Privileges Committee criticised Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg among eight others for creating security concerns after applying 'co-ordinated pressure'.

The committee suggested that Nadine, who recently stepped down as an MP, and the other allies of Boris Johnson had launched ‘vociferous attacks’ and ‘sustained interference’ to try to delay the report and findings on Boris lying to parliament.

Nadine Dorries has been named four times while Mark Jenkinson, Michael Fabricant, Brendan Clarke-Smith, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Andrea Jenkyns, Priti Patel and Zac Goldsmith are all accused of applying ‘improper pressure’.

You can read the full 14-page report by the Privileges Committee online here.