Boris Johnson’s Commons career has been killed off for now but here’s when he could make a comeback

THEY came to bury Boris, not to praise him - but even the ex-PM’s fiercest critics were shocked at the severity of the Partygate probe.

MPs threw a 30,000 word book at him - even trying to ban him from stepping foot in Parliament again in a fit of pettiness.

Dogged for months by allegations of bias, jealousy and minds-made up, the Privileges Committee result was only ever going one way.
Let's not beat around the bush.

Labour chair Harriet Harman has never hidden her contempt for Johnson and publicly declared him guilty before the show trial even began.

And her sidekick Sir Bernard Jenkin, though a Brexiteer, has never hidden his own dislike for what he saw as a Johnny-Come-Lately Eurosceptic who took all the glory.

But friends, Romans, countrymen, is this really the end of the Boris show?

If there is one role that Johnson has played well for many years, it's King Over the Water.

Yes, he is out of the Commons now, but anyone hoping to have heard the last of the blond bombshell will I expect be disappointed.

Some pals have even suggested Johnson likes the idea of being PM far more than he enjoyed actually being leader.

With their OTT punishment - topped only by Keith Vaz who offered to buy some rent boys cocaine - the Committee risk having the opposite effect.

They’ve killed Johnson’s Commons career for now - but the fervour in which they hounded him out risks making him a martyr amongst fairer minded voters.

The Tory party is deeply split.

About a third still like Boris, about a third absolutely hate him and the rest in the middle just want to hold their seats.

If Rishi Sunak pulls off a his own comeback kid victory next year, I can’t see a way in for BoJo.

But were the Conservatives to take the pasting that the polls say is coming… who knows, perhaps once more the cry will go up… “Send for Boris!”