in number 10, to issue a soft apology, not apologising for what i said, but apologising for the fact that as a minister, isaid it. and that s fair enough, a minister needs to toe the line. and, to be clear, for those listening and watching, what you did when a parliamentary committee, a bipartisan so called privileges committee, had looked at borisjohnson s words and behaviours around this partygate scandal that we all remember, the privileges committee ultimately found that borisjohnson had deliberately misled the house of commons. he had committed a contempt of parliament. you then came out and dismissed the findings of that bipartisan committee as, an appalling witch hunt, an anti democratic kangaroo court. how could you do that? so, i m going to try
johnson and the so called partygate scandal? so, this was the narrative that was put out by number 10 after i resigned, and it s just not true. i was asked very politely by a colleague, a friend in number 10, to issue a soft apology, not apologising for what i said, but apologising for the fact that as a minister, isaid it. and that s fair enough, a minister needs to toe the line. and, to be clear, for those listening and watching, what you did when a parliamentary committee, a bipartisan so called privileges committee, had looked at borisjohnson s words and behaviours around this partygate scandal that we all remember, the privileges committee ultimately found that borisjohnson had deliberately misled the house of commons. he had committed a contempt of parliament. you then came out and dismissed the findings of that bipartisan committee as, an appalling witch hunt, an anti democratic
so, this was the narrative that was put out by number 10 after i resigned, and it s just not true. i was asked very politely by a colleague, a friend in number 10, to issue a soft apology, not apologising for what i said, but apologising for the fact that as a minister, isaid it. and that s fair enough, a minister needs to toe the line. and, to be clear, for those listening and watching, what you did when a parliamentary committee, a bipartisan so called privileges committee, had looked at borisjohnson s words and behaviours around this partygate scandal that we all remember, the privileges committee ultimately found that borisjohnson had deliberately misled the house of commons. he had committed a contempt of parliament. you then came out and dismissed the findings of that bipartisan committee as, an appalling witch hunt, an anti democratic kangaroo court. how could you do that? so, i m going to try
suggests his determination to undermine its conclusions is not going anywhere. ione wells, bbc news. there is, as you might imagine, plenty more on the story available on the website. the partygate scandal has dogged mr johnson s premiership and police, you might remember, find him for breaking the rules in 2020, making him the first serving prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law. that report is out at nine o clock british summertime, which is, would you believe, about four hours from now. we will have plenty more on that and we will be speaking, we hope, corresponded nick big from westminster in about an hour as well for his take on all of this and what we might expect. do stay with us for that. let us turn our attention to a story that is developing in india. tens of thousands of people have been evacuated in india and pakistan, as the countries
Johnson should be denied automatic access to Parliament for deliberately misleading lawmakers over rule-breaking COVID lockdown parties, a committee said.