Boris Johnson faces high-stakes grilling over ‘partygate’ at committee meeting

Boris Johnson is back where he likes to be: at the centre of attention. But he’s not so happy about the reason.

Britain’s former prime minister faces a grilling Wednesday by a committee of lawmakers over whether he misled Parliament about rule-breaking parties in government buildings during the coronavirus pandemic.

In a statement, a bullish Johnson said “the evidence conclusively shows that I did not knowingly or recklessly mislead Parliament.”

“The committee has produced not…