Johnson ally claims he will not get fair hearing at Partygate inquiry

Despite Tory majority, Conor Burns says Harriet Harman tweet proves committee has ‘predetermined’ Johnson’s guilt

Boris Johnson will not get a fair hearing from the cross-party privileges committee because some of the MPs on it seem to “have predetermined their view” on his guilt, an ally of the former prime minister has argued ahead of a week that could spell the end of Johnson’s parliamentary career.

The Bournemouth West MP, Conor Burns, who served as a minister under Johnson, told BBC Radio 4’s Westminster Hour that Harriet Harman, the Labour MP who is chairing the Conservative-majority committee, had previously said she believed Johnson had misled the Commons.

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