The world has moved on from Boris Johnson, says Grant Shapps

Minister slaps down claims that privileges committee was biased as Tory row over former PM’s exit intensifies

The “world has moved on” from Boris Johnson, a senior cabinet minister has said, as he sought to quell the intensifying row among Tory MPs about the former prime minister’s decision to quit parliament.

Despite Johnson resigning on Friday in a fit of rage over the results of an inquiry into Partygate, the energy secretary, Grant Shapps, slapped down claims the privileges committee conducting the inquiry was biased or that Johnson had been forced out by the “establishment”.