TODAY’S vote in Parliament on the Boris Johnson Partygate report is an opportunity to “end the Conservative “soap opera”, according to Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds.

The shadow business secretary told GB News: “I’ve seen the stories of the weekend. Tories attacking other Tory MPs on the committee, Tories attacking civil servants. Even I, as a member of parliament, I’m so tired of this Conservative soap opera.

“I just read that report because it’s going to be parliamentary business today. The case is forensically laid out, it is damning, it is absolutely clear and straightforward and accessible in how it analyses what the former Prime Minister did and why that was unacceptable, and that’s why I’ll be accepting the conclusions of that report and voting for it today.”

In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, he said: “To be honest, I’ve never really read anything quite like it in terms of how it is making a robust defence really of parliamentary democracy and saying, ‘well, Boris Johnson has fallen very much below the minimum standard required’.

“To be honest, it is so damning, and it’s forensic. If anyone hasn’t read it, I’d say read the summary, the first eight or nine pages. I understand over the weekend, no significant dissent is expected towards it, it will go through on the shout of MPs.”

Outlining Labour’s new green energy plan being launched today, Mr Reynolds said: “Renewables and nuclear providing the majority of that [power], backed up with hydrogen and carbon capture, and increasingly in the future battery storage, so that we not only have an energy system which is clean…which is better for national security, which crucially provides the good jobs of the future because there is no question these will be the industries that will have the greatest potential in future.

“It’s a clear red line between ourselves and the Conservative Party. If people want more of the same, they can have that with the Conservative Party, but if they want some ambition, some real future optimism about not just jobs, but national security and energy security and lower bills as a result of that, they can have a look at our plan today that Ed Miliband and Keir Starmer are laying out.”