BREAKING: The by-elections in Boris Johnson and fellow Tory Nigel Adams' constituencies of Uxbridge and South Ruislip and Ainsty are set to take place on the 20th of July. We are still wondering about the vote in Mid Bedfordshire, Nadine 👀
The former prime minister and Nigel Adams, a close ally, resigned last week in the space of 24 hours (Picture: AP/Gettyand fellow Tory Nigel Adams explosively stepped down.LondonJohnson abruptly resigned from his seat after receiving a copy of a report from the MP-led Privileges Committee into whether he lifted to Parliament over lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic.
‘They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons,’ he said in his resignation letter., MPs accused Johnson of being in ‘serious contempt’ by repeatedly and deliberately misleading Parliament.
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