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
camberwell and peckham. and i speak today with a feeling of overwhelming relief that at last the truth is being told in this house in the collective gas lighting of the nation is finally over. it is shocking in a way that a committee has had to spell it out that, and i quote, if ministers cannot be trusted to tell the truth, the house cannot do its job. trusted to tell the truth, the house cannot do itsjob. even more shocking that the minister in question was the most senior person in government, the prime minister. a prime minister who sought to obscure the truth from those to whom he was accountable by lying deliberately and repeatedly. and who by lying to parliament, was also lying to the people who elected. in a prime minister who has effectively shredded the ministerial code, a crucial part of the spinal cord of the constitution and the words of
is deeply hurtful. we all know that the team at number 10 work under great pressure, of course they do, but they are not undergraduates, they are grown ups. not everything is a laugh. you have got to be able to separate the process of politics from the need for good governance and very difficult circumstances. and the bargain between the people and government at times of difficulty is the sense that everybody really is in it together. if that is broken, as it was broken by dominic cummings last year, as roger gale in that excellent interview made clear, if that link is broken, then government cannot do itsjob. you should have had sajid javid on today talking about the success of the vaccine programme, bearing in mind that firstjob was just one year ago, and if such it cannot do hisjob, and of people around the country who want to support colleagues that are doing difficultjobs support colleagues that are doing difficult jobs feel undermined support colleagues that are doing difficultjo