Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 4 March 2023

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1. Johnson ‘fights for future’

Boris Johnson is “fighting for his political career”, said The Times, after a cross-party committee found there was significant evidence he misled MPs over lockdown parties, and that he almost certainly knew he was breaking rules. Senior parliamentary sources said the interim report was so damning that he could be suspended from the Commons for more than a month, which would trigger a by-election in his constituency. However, Johnson claimed that the committee’s work “totally vindicates” him.

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