hard to see purpose at the moment? well, it s hard to see what purpose at the moment? well, it s hard to see what else purpose at the moment? well, it s hard to see what else you - purpose at the moment? well, it s hard to see what else you can - purpose at the moment? well, it s hard to see what else you can do i hard to see what else you can do aside from having a system that we ve got. arguably, the prime minister could ve made his own decision and that if he d broken the ministerial code, he d ought to go. it s hard to see where else he could put the authority a prime minister except with parliaments. you can t expect the civil service to do it he can t expectjudges or some kind of independent regulated to do it come at the end, the heart of our constitutional system is parliament. the buck stops with parliament. i ve said in a couple of things i ve written over the last week that to really come of this is a situation where mps need to think about their constitutional respons
where do we stand? where do we stand? well, we are in this situation where do we stand? well, we are in this situation where where do we stand? well, we are in this situation where it where do we stand? well, we are in this situation where it certainly - this situation where it certainly looks pretty clear that the prime minister has broken the ministerial code, notjust in one way, but two ways. the ministerial code requires ministers to comply with the law and requires ministers not to knowingly mislead parliaments and to resign if they do. but it s a difficult situation because the keeper of the ministerial code is the prime minister himself who would normally be the person who would ask for those resignations. these allegations are pointed at him. as we heard in yourfilm, and very much now falls to mps to decide where to go with us. they are the only ones who can really act, which is why he has been answering questions this afternoon and we have this rather extraordinary deba
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sir keir starmer called it another mealy mouthed apology. he knows he is dishonest and incapable of changing, so he drags everybody else down with him. dozens of fixed penalty notices have already been issued to the prime minister, his wife, the chancellor and senior civil servants. drinks in the garden and leaving parties could land borisjohnson with more fines, but this conservative mp has heard enough. i m very sorry to have to say this, but i no longer think that he is worthy of the great office that he holds. mps will decide on thursday whether mrjohnson should be investigated by a committee for deliberately misleading parliament. the real question is for tory backbenchers. will they finally grow a spine and remove this person from office? or is the tory strategy to go on about standing behind the prime minister who the public cannot trust with the truth?
this is bbc news. i m lukwesa burak. the headlines at 8pm. boris johnson apologises in parliament for breaking coronavirus laws but says he didn t realise what he did was illegal. it did not occur to me then or subsequently that a gathering in the cabinet room just before a vital meeting on covid strategy could amount to a breach of the rules. i repeat, that was my mistake and i apologise for it unreservedly. what a joke! even now, is the latest mealy mouthed apology stumbles out of one side of his mouth, a new set of deflections and distortions pour from the other. but the damage is already done.