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10. That would definitely be one bill it would be great to see fall, though I won't hold my breath,

Tue Jun 7, 2022, 03:16 PM

Jun 2022

but there's also the Commons Privileges Committee investigation into Johnson:

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/privileges-committee-investigation

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/privileges-committee-boris-johnson

No idea when it's going to report (it won't report at all if Johnson dissolves parliament and goes for a possibly unfeasibly early general election), but if that finds against him and he doesn't resign, then that would be a neat trigger for a Commons no-confidence vote if it hasn't happened earlier.

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