Boris Johnson is likely to face demands to provide details of his secret meeting with Sue Gray to a powerful committee of the Commons.
The Privileges Committee will soon begin an investigation into whether the Prime Minister knowingly tricked MPs into parties held on Downing Street during the blockades. As part of the investigation, the committee is likely to take evidence on the meeting between Gray and Johnson, sources said.
The times revealed yesterday that at a meeting earlier this month the prime minister suggested to Gray, a senior civil servant, that it no longer made sense to disclose his findings because now the details were “all there”.
The Privilege Committee, a little-used body with a Conservative majority, has been tasked with examining it