The founder of Guido Fawkes has blasted the privileges committee as having an "inbuilt anti-Boris majority" in a critical assessment.
Paul Staines told GB News that Boris Johnson will have felt the whole privilege committee set-up was a "kangaroo court".
He said: "I think the resignation statement was very clear that he felt that the whole privilege committee set-up was a kangaroo court.
"I felt that at the very beginning, if you look at it, you had Chris Bright [who] was originally going to chair it.
Paul Staines told GB News that he felt the whole privilege committee set-up was a "kangaroo court".
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"He had to go because he had tweeted so much hatred of Boris.
"Then you have Harriet Harman, who is a divisive figure and had already decided in public statements that Boris was guilty."
He continued: "And this sort of story that's going around that it's got an inbuilt Tory majority.
"Charles Walker is an obsessive hater of Boris.
"Andy Carter, we've got documents where he said Boris had to go in 2022.
"That committee had an inbuilt anti-Boris majority."
Yesterday, Boris resigned as the MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip with immediate effect after receiving a letter from the privileges committee about its Partygate probe.
Johnson, 58, released a 1,000-word resignation statement stressing he was "bewildered and appalled" by the privileges committee's drive to oust him from the House of Commons.
Boris resigned as the MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip with immediate effect
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The ex-Prime Minister said: "It is very sad to be leaving Parliament - at least for now - but above all I am bewildered and appalled that I can be forced out, anti-democratically, by a committee chaired and managed, by Harriet Harman, with such egregious bias.
"I am being forced out by a tiny handful of people, with no evidence to back up their assertions, and without approval even of Conservative party members let alone the wider electorate.
"I believe that a dangerous and unsettling precedent is being set."
