FORMER Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced his immediate resignation as Conservative MP for Uxbridge.
Mr Johnson, who served as Prime Minister from 2019 until his resignation last September, said he was ‘being forced out of Parliament by a tiny number of people’.
His statement came minutes after it was reported an investigation as to whether he misled Parliament was set to report its findings.
Mr Johnson is understood to have received the draft report from the House of Commons Privileges Committee which allegedly found he has misled Parliament and recommended a 10-day suspension.
The proposed punishment would trigger a by-election in his constituency but Mr Johnson has opted to stand down and accused the inquiry of ‘forcing him out’.
In a statement he said: “They (the committee) have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons.”
“I did not lie, and I believe that in their hearts they committee know it.”
“They know perfectly well that when I spoke in the Commons I was saying what I believed sincerely to be true and what I had been briefed to say, like any other minister,” he said.
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