POLL: Is Boris Johnson the sufferer of a Privileges Committee stitch-up?
A cross-party group of MPs headed by Labour’s Harriet Harman had been investigating the previous Prime Minister since final June – their final report has now been published.
On the central query of whether or not Boris Johnson misled the House of Commons in claiming all steering was adopted throughout gatherings in Number 10 – again when strict measures had been in place to forestall the unfold of coronavirus – the Committee concluded he was resoundingly responsible.
But the 30,000-word report goes far beyond that, by contemplating him to have dedicated additional contempts in mendacity to the Committee itself, disparaging its work and members and in breaching confidentiality in his scathing resignation assertion final Friday.
No longer MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, the 90-day suspension the Committee recommends bares little consequence for Mr Johnson now.
He does, nonetheless, take severe challenge with the best way during which their conclusions had been reached, as do lots of his allies.
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Mr Johnson wasted no time in putting out a retort. He described the central cost that he misled Parliament as a “deranged conclusion”, one which compelled the Committee to say a “series of things that are patently absurd, or contradicted by the facts.”
He claimed that he had obtained a number of warnings over the previous few months that the Committee was being “driven relentlessly by the political agenda of Harriet Harman” and that the non-public antipathy of Bernard Jenkins – one of many 4 Conservative MPs on the nine-person board – in direction of him was “historic and well-known.”
He mentioned: “Above all it did not cross my mind – as I spoke in the House of Commons – that the events were unlawful.”
He concluded: “This is a dreadful day for MPs and for democracy. This decision means that no MP is free from vendetta, or expulsion on trumped-up charges by a tiny minority who want to see him or her gone from the Commons.
A senior loyalist of Mr Johnson’s told Express.co.uk: “We were expecting a stitch up and we got one.”
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