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

I'm your host Adam Payne, political editor at Politics Home, and each week I'll be taking an in-depth look at the week's biggest political stories with politics home reporters and special guests from across Westminster.

Today I'm in tremendous company. I'm joined by politics home reporter Noah Hoffman,

Stephen Hammond, the Conservative MP for Wimbledon, and Dr Alice Lilly, senior researcher

at the Institute for Government. As we are recording this, as we speak, the House of Commons

debate on the

Privileges Committee is about to get underway with a vote this evening. Now, the government is

very much expected to win that vote, meaning that Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, will not be

investigated by that committee of MPs or the claims that he misled Parliament or the party gate,

at least for now. That motion was tabled by Kirstama and the Labour Party,

which the government responded to with an amendment of its own last night on Wednesday evening.

Now, Alice, you've been delighting politics, Twitter, with your very handy explainers of what it all means.

Please can you explain verbally in layman's terms what's been going on these last few days.

Where are we now?

So, as you say, Labour put down this motion that is just about to be debated in the Commons.

And this motion says that allegations about the

Prime Minister potentially misleading Parliament should be referred to the Privileges Committee for

investigation and then they would come back and report to the House some point later. But then

what happened is late on Wednesday night, the government put down an amendment to that Labour motion, which essentially says the House won't make a decision on referring it to the Privileges Committee on Thursday.

Instead, they will wait until the Metropolitan Police have finished their inquiries until the Sue Gray report is published.

And at that point, the House

will then make a decision on whether to refer things to the Privileges Committee. So it could

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