Partygate, continued.

British MPs decided on Thursday to open an investigation into whether Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson knowingly misled Parliament in his explanations in the case.

By consensus, without even formally voting, they decided to seize the "Privileges Committee", which will in turn investigate this scandal around the parties organized in Downing Street despite the successive confinements linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, in a procedure likely to eventually force Boris Johnson to resign.

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