PARTYGATE and corruption forced Boris Johnson to resign, but there was a nastier, more unpleasant side to his cabinet.

While Johnson was allegedly oblivious of the Partygate shenanigans, holders of the three most senior posts in his government were operating their own agenda. At both the Home and Foreign Offices Priti Patel and Dominic Raab were to be subsequently accused of bullying civil servants. And Johnson-selected Nadhim Zahawi as Chancellor of the Exchequer has now been sacked for concealing his multi-million pound fine by HMRC.

There is the £60 billion black hole in the government funds they are now demanding we pay - how much of that money went to Tory cronies in the PPE and Testing VIP scandals?

So blatant was this siphoning off of taxpayers’ money that even the Tories have got cold feet.

In December it emerged the government would sue PPE Medpro for £122 million plus costs. The government said medical gowns supplied by the company "did not comply with the specification in the contract" and could not be used in the NHS. PPE Medpro was championed by Tory Baroness Mone.

The toxic environment, prevalent within the Boris Johnson-led party, still contaminates the government and the parliamentary party to this day.

Andrew Milroy

Trowbridge