‘He’s gone full Trump’: Tories turn on Boris Johnson over Partygate

Senior MPs blast ex-PM's wicked' claims after his backers level new accusations against Keir Starmer's appointment of Sue Gray

Tory support for Boris Johnson is draining away tonight as party grandees likened his response to a cross-party parliamentary inquiry into whether he misled MPs over Partygate" to the lies of former US president Donald Trump.

Several Conservative MPs in senior positions reacted with disbelief after Johnson and his dwindling band of allies questioned the work of the independent Commons privileges committee and accused it of an outrageous level of bias", after it said on Friday there was a significant volume of evidence suggesting that the former PM may have misled parliament.