The motion – a copy of which has been seen by The Telegraph – seeks to stop the work of the committee. It “expresses [the House of Commons’] concern with the publication of the report by the privileges committee” and “notes the divergence from the established convention of ‘deliberately misleading’”. The motion also claims the inquiry is “now unnecessary and should be rescinded and that the proceedings of the privileges committee be discontinued”. Separately, Mr Johnson launched his own fightback in the Commons, with a lengthy statement saying that he is proud of his Government’s record and insisting that millions of people were “right to place their trust in me”. On the final day before MPs leave Westminster for the summer break, the Prime Minister issued a 2,568-word statement outlining his administration’s achievements, including getting Brexit done and resolving a “deadlocked parliament and a paralysed government”. He hailed his Government’s handling of the Covid pandemic, which he described as the “greatest challenge since the Second World War”, and listed a series of levelling up achievements – from making streets safer, to fixing the broken social care system. And referencing his successor in No 10, Mr Johnson added: “I know that the Conservative government that follows after us will do what its predecessors have always done and meet the challenges of the day by serving the British people.”
