Senior Tories tell Boris Johnson and allies to ‘shut up and go away’

Privileges committee is preparing to sign off what is expected to be damning report into former PM's conduct

Boris Johnson and his allies have been told by senior Conservatives to shut up and go away" as the privileges committee prepares to sign off what is expected to be a damning report into his conduct.

MPs on the committee are understood to have received threats from members of the public over the weekend, following Johnson's decision to stand down as an MP after being told they had concluded he deliberately misled parliament over Partygate.