Dorries, Mogg and Patel are in hot water after they, and other Tory MPs, were named in special report on partygate probe.
The privileges committee has released its report into interference in its Boris Johnson partygate probe, naming seven MPs and three peers as those who put “improper pressure” on the investigation.
It singled out Mr Rees-Mogg and Ms Dorries in particular for using their shows on GB News and TalkTV respectively to mount “the most vociferous attacks”, reports Sky News.
Dorries, Mogg and Patel
ITV’s Paul Brand tweeted: “BREAKING: Privileges Committee concludes that Conservative MPs and peers deliberately tried to undermine its inquiry into Boris Johnson and intimidate its members. They single out Nadine Dorries, Michael Fabricant, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Priti Patel, Mark Jenkinson and more.”
He tweeted…”Committee says: “Their aim was to (1) influence the outcome of the inquiry, (2) impede the work of the Committee by inducing members to resign, (3) discredit the Committee’s conclusions if those conclusions were not what they wanted, (4) discredit the Committee as a whole.”
Followed up with…”Committee adds: “This unprecedented and co-ordinated pressure did not affect the conduct or outcome of our inquiry. However, it had significant personal impact on individual Members and raised significant security concerns.”
He added: “Reminder that the committee is made up of a majority of Conservative MPs. This is yet more Tory on Tory civil war, though the committee presents that the principle at stake here is of course much broader and bigger than that.”
Angry Tory MPs
Here are three of the many angry MPs reactions to the findings.
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