'Partygate': Boris Johnson deliberately misled UK Parliament, report says

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson deliberately misled U.K. Parliament over rule-breaking COVID lockdown parties, a committee said on Thursday in a damning report.

The privileges committee – the main disciplinary body for lawmakers – said Johnson had misled parliament on several occasions about Downing Street parties in a manner unprecedented for a prime minister.

“We conclude that in deliberately misleading the House Mr. Johnson committed a serious contempt,” the committee said.

Johnson, however, responded to the privileges committee’s findings against him, saying they are “rubbish,” “a lie” and “a charade,” further claiming the committee members are waging a vendetta against him.

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[michaelleonard]

Wow, justin should have been gone with SNC Lavalan alone....add about 113 other transgressions and he should be jailed, if not worse.

[onthenextthing]

Typical politician. Same thing in Canada. These people have no credibility. None whatsoever.

[johnhess]

Trudeau should look to this for inspiration

[craigthir]

Boris wasn't a good leader, but at a party he would be fun as hell.

[ThePearson]

*Boris Johnson has done what dog does against lamppost, says former boss Max Hastings.*

Boris Johnson’s former boss says the former prime minister is not a “decent human being” and made fools of the public while in No 10.

Max Hastings, who was editor of The Daily Telegraph when Mr Johnson worked there, slated his ex-staffer’s behaviour after the privileges committee report found he repeatedly lied to Parliament before being complicit in a campaign of abuse and intimidation.

“I don’t hate Boris Johnson. He is what he always was – doing what the dog does against the lamppost, ” Mr Hastings told the BBC.

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If it is right to, in effect, kick Boris Johnson out of parliament for knowingly lying on at least eight separate occasions, why, one may ask, is it alright for him to be a member of the Conservative Party?

If he were still an MP, then there’d certainly be a case for removing the whip from him; and, now that he’s skipped that particular pen, our albino greased piglet is still snuffling around the sty.

He is, at the time of writing, a member of the Tory party, throwing his weight around, chucking odure at Rishi Sunak, making trouble and getting his snout firmly in the trough to find a perpetual leadership campaign.

[Spitfire_Cowboy]

Must be enjoyable for our adversaries to see scandal after scandal they can capitalize on for Geopolitical gain.

[bobwoods]

If someone tells you not to drink poison then one day that person drinks poison themselves does that make it safe to drink poison?

[johntaylor]

Johnson as his own agender, Making fools of every one esp the Tories, crime does pay