memberfor to my right honourable friend, the member for camberwell and peckham? for her stewardship and the way she has chaired this privileges committee with such strength and integrity and also thanks to all the members of that committee as well. now, the report was a damning indictment of the former prime minister s behaviour, finding that yes, he indeed deliberately misled this house. no surprise to me, as in my opinion he was never suitable for high office, especially the great office of state of the office of prime minister. even his disgraceful track record. now, there is an old saying, but when someone shows you who they are, believe them. and let s face it. there is a litany of examples of mrjohnson s failures and lies. he lied about brexit, he was sacked for lying multiple times, indeed, he lied to the late her majesty the queen. so i will be voting to endorse this report, although i believe i wish the committee actually chose to ban him for life, but i want to enco
welcome, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. let s start by going to westminster. in the next 30 minutes mps will debate that dramatic report from last week which found boris johnson repeatedly misled parliament about lockdown parties at downing street. he called that conclusions arranged and described the committee which carried out the investigation as a kangaroo court. they recommended a 90 day suspension but mrjohnson had stood down as an mp. 0ne mrjohnson had stood down as an mp. one more thing to the mix, the bbc has seen in invitation to a jingle and mingle event from december 2020, held at conservative headquarters when london was under cupboard restrictions banning indoor socialising. video of the event emerged over the weekend showing a roomful of people in close proximity with some apparentlyjoking about covid regulations. let s bring you the latest. rishi sunak is not expected to attend this afternoon s debate. the prime ministe
because it is being challenged and we have to accept that and respond to this challenge, which i hope we will be doing in this debate. despite the hysterical reactions of the country can i think it s important to state that this is a properly constituted senior committee of the house as indeed the leader of the house did so in her remarks. it was asked to do a difficult but vitaljob and it discharged its duties with integrity and honour will stop it is our duty now, i believe, before this house to ensure that we support the members of that committee and we support the conclusions that they have come to after this detailed work. i believe also we should thank the members of the privileges committee because they have done the house of commons a very great service under the most intense pressure. instead of being thanked, they have found themselves traduced in the borisjohnson worshiping print and tv media, which has called into question their motives and their very integrity. t
attitude because it is in effect an excuse for appalling behaviour. i give way to the honourable gentleman. give way to the honourable gentleman- give way to the honourable rentleman. .,, ., ., gentleman. i m most grateful to the chairman of gentleman. i m most grateful to the chairman of the gentleman. i m most grateful to the chairman of the standards gentleman. i m most grateful to the l chairman of the standards committee. he and i took part in that debate as he will well remember on the 21st of april 2022 and i raised the question of knowingly mislead is because it wasn t included in the original nation which was then passed which led to the reference to the committee on privileges. but in the course of it i raised with him directly, but he certainly made the remark for which i paid credit, was the fact that intention is at the heart of this question. if you knock out the word knowingly, you knock out the word knowingly, you knock out the word knowingly, you knock out the
here to work across party. there are some honourable members on that side that i have done a lot of work with, issues that are, for the interests of our constituents and that is why what we are debating matters. it is about the fabric of our democracy and a number of people have spoken about the fact that this is a kangaroo court, this doesn t matter, but let s stick to the facts. on the let but let s stick to the facts. on the 21st of april 2022, this house without division referred the privilege committee on the matter concerning the conduct of the former prime minister. and that committee, that cross party committee has at all times followed the law and the custom set by this parliament. and the fundamental procedure is governed by the standing orders and precedents of this house. and all the evidence that committee has heard over the course of their inquiry, including evidence from the former prime minister, all that evidence was given under oath.