Michael Gove has defended the Privileges Committee investigating partygate after Boris Johnson described the group of MPs as a 'kangaroo court'
What do Johnson's constituents think?
If the committee finds Mr Johnson did deliberately mislead MPs, they could have recommended Mr Johnson be suspended from the Commons for more than 10 days. This would have left the ex-prime minister facing a recall petition, where his constituents get to choose if there is a by-election - although this is all now academic due to Mr Johnson's resignation.
Any suspension would have required a vote by MPs as a whole, and it looks like Mr Johnson would have struggled for support even among the party he was leading this time last year. Mr Johnson said in his resignation letter that he was"very sad" to be leaving the Commons -"at least for now".
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