it comes to guidance on this says that he did not tell borisjohnson that he did not tell borisjohnson that no overt guidance was broken in number ten. there are different accounts on this evidence of what exactly went on and it feels likely that something that could come up indicating this afternoon, this question of if the legal rules were not broken, was the guidance broken? we know the legal stuff was broken because boris johnson we know the legal stuff was broken because borisjohnson was eventually fined, but his team and some of his advisers seem to have been drawing a distinction between the two things. as i say, there are other parts of this if few pages back where different aids, some of them mps, a parliamentary secretary to boris johnson at the time for example saying mrjohnson was told that meetings before the key prime minister s questions session is that rules had been followed, so he will have that line of defence later but thatis have that line of defence later but
comments, they could decide that he deserves a sanction. now, the raft of sanctions available to them goes from one side of the scale to the other, anything from an apology to parliament to suspending him from the commons for ten days or so, if that happened, it could trigger a by election in his oxbridge seat. i have got to say, the more severe of those sanctions seem less likely because that would require we think the committee to find that there was a deliberate attempt to mislead parliament, and proving intent is a bit more difficult. whatever happens, if the committee comes back and says we do not think boris johnson was open with parliament, he could have been more open with parliament, that will definitely have a big impact on him and be a big blow to his political credibility which is why you will see him come out swinging this afternoon. he wants to launch a staunch defence of what happened and insist to everyone around westminster that he was acting in
had been followed at all times. what some of this evidence is about as the counterclaims, to some of the staff who work there at the time saying surely borisjohnson should have known that these events are taking place because concerns were raised about of them. fundamentally, the question that parliament is weighing up are the privileges committee weighing up, was boris johnson as honest with parliament as he could and perhaps should have been? there is some scepticism about his defence, the other thing in this document as photographs of him at various events, some would say, if you look at the photographs, it is pretty clear the social distancing is not being followed. this is one here on my screen that borisjohnson attended. 0ne here on my screen that borisjohnson attended. one of the questions mps well ask him, you were there, you knew the social wasn t taking place, where the man who was explaining to the country every day on television
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legislation, friends, family and members of the community would have a duty to report individuals in same sex relationships to the authorities. homosexual acts are already illegal in the east african country, but the bill seeks to go further and criminalise people on the basis of their sexual identity. the bill passed with widespread support in uganda s parliament. the house of commons privileges committee investigating whether former prime minister borisjohnson knowingly misled parliament over the partygate affair has published its evidence bundle ahead of the hearing on wednesday afternoon. 0ur political correspondent, nick eardley, joins us from westminster. some fresh information release that the committee is using as part of the committee is using as part of the evidence it is assessing, tell us what else you ve seen today. hi us what else you ve seen today. h again, about three quarters of the way through now, a few minutes ago we were talking about the simon case