Chris Grayling misses out on job chairing Westminster intelligence committee

Boris Johnson’s preferred candidate Chris Grayling has missed out on the chairmanship of the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, after members elected Tory MP Julian Lewis.

The former cabinet minister - nicknamed “failing Grayling” after a string of mishaps as justice and transport secretary - had been expected to claim the job after Mr Johnson put forward a committee with a built-in Tory majority.

Dr Lewis's first job will now be to decide on when - and if - to publish the long-delayed report completed by the committee last year under his predecessor Dominic Grieve into Russian efforts to interfere in UK politics.

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