Hello and welcome to Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host, Alan Tolhurst.

I'm with me to discuss the future of the Conservative Party as it looks to finally, possibly move on from Boris Johnson, is Chauvin Bailey, the Tory MP for Stroud, alongside Ryan Shorthouse, founder of the Liberal

Conservative think tank Bright Blue, as well as my colleague here at Politics Home, Caitlin Doherty.

So there's only one place to start, really, although discussed maybe the Conservative Party

moving on from Boris Johnson, moving past Boris Johnson, we have to touch on this morning's news

as we just recorded the Privileges Committee has just come out

into his actions in Parliament around Partigate and recommended that if he hadn't already

resigned from the comments, he should be suspended for 90 days. Caitlin, can you pick out some of the

key issues in the report or 30,000 words of it? Yep. So now, I believe more than 18 months on

from the first Partygate story appearing in the newspapers.

Very promptly at 9 o'clock this morning, we did get the Privileges Committee report in to Boris Johnson

and whether he had misled Parliament. The committee found that he had misled Parliament

multiple times with his statements about events in Downing Street during the COVID pandemic and the various

degrees of lockdown that we had obviously there were different rules at different times.

Were he still an MP, he has now resigned as of last Friday.

They would have recommended a 90-day ban and they have also recommended that he not be

allowed a former members pass, which is a

usual privilege extended to former MPs. 90 days is an extraordinary long one. We saw Margaret Ferry,

the former S&PMP, we recommended for 30 days. It's part of this, the strength of the sanction,

partly to do with his actions after the report was compiled. We know that the Prodigit committee are very upset about

his potential leaking of its findings and also the kind of responses that he and his supporters have

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