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This is an emergency episode of the newsagents because we want to tell you a story, a bedtime story if you're going to bed really late tonight.

It contains someone who feels that wrong has been done to him.

I have received a letter from the Privileges Committee, making it clear, much to my amazement,

they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament. They have still not

produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons.

You may have guessed by now that this letter has been written by one Boris Johnson, soon to be

ex-MP. It goes on. Their purpose from the beginning has been to find me guilty,

regardless of the facts. This is the very definition of a kangaroo court. Most members of the

committee, especially the chair, had already expressed deeply prejudicial remarks about my guilt

before they'd even seen the evidence. They should have recused

themselves. We hope you're sitting comfortably, children, because Boris has reached his crescendo.

So I have today written to my association in Uxbridge and South Reislip to say that I am stepping

down forthwith and triggering an immediate by-election. It is very sad to be leaving Parliament, at least for now, but above all, I am bewildered

and appalled that I can be forced out, anti-democratically, by a committee chaired and managed

by Harriet Harmon with such egregious bias.

On this emergency episode of the Newsagents,

Boris Johnson's resignation from Parliament,

the fallout and what it means for Rishi Sunak

and the Conservative Party.

Welcome to the Newsagents.

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