joining me now is our political correspondent, rob watson. also with us in the studio is dr alice lilly, who s a senior researcher at the institute for government, which is a nonpartisan think tank. and from westminster, we rejoined byjames heale, who s the diary editor at the spectator magazine. welcome to all of you. let s make a start with some of the background to this. rob, we ve got people watching internationally. it s a confusing set of circumstances at the best of times, what happens in the house of commons. just give us some of the contacts, how did we get to hear? where do we start! i suppose we ought to start with what is actually happening. the committee of seven mps, called the privilege coming to.
that he broke his own rules, that he broke his own law and he should resign. what we understand labour will put to parliament tomorrow would be a motion that will pick up some of the specific things that borisjohnson specific things that boris johnson has said to parliament about party gait and suggest that as a reason for him to be referred to a parliamentary committee of seven mps who will then look into whether or not he misled parliament in what he said and they have sanctions available to them if they find that he did such as asking for an apology or suspending someone from the commons or even at the most extreme and expiring them. we don t yet know what to conservatives are going to do in response to that. there is some suggestion that perhaps they will look at the wording and then try and amend it and make a change to wet to make it more positive which would then allow their mps to vote for that change version. yesterday boris johnson vote for that change version. yesterday bori