as veteran broadcaster ken bruce signs off from his radio 2 show for the last time. borisjohnson may have misled parliament over law breaking parties at downing street during the coronavirus pandemic. that s according to mps investigating the former prime minister s conduct. the privileges committee says evidence strongly suggests breaches of coronavirus rules would have been obvious to mrjohnson, and identified four examples where he may have misled the house of commons. mrjohnson said there was no evidence he knowingly misled parliament. our political correspondent, iain watson is at westminster. joining me now is caroline slocock director of the independent think basically the privilege committee just be clear who they are as a committee of eight mps appointed by the whole house of commons and are answerable to the house of commons. the conservative majority on a committee so borisjohnson s party, some of his own mps in majority on a committee of its chaired by harri
counsel. he s got an expensive lawyer who will be advising him in this and i guess he s going to say that he didn t know any of this knowingly but, you know, the fact there seem to be that he didn t correct the record when there was a very strong evidence, the committee says, that he would have known that parties took place. that says, that he would have known that parties took place. parties took place. that is interesting on that - parties took place. that is interesting on that point l parties took place. that is - interesting on that point because the line here from the privileges committee that we have is the evidence strongly suggest that breaches of guidance would have been obvious to mrjohnson at the time he was at the gathering. gatheringss. that is quite a strong statement but presumably mrjohnson will say, well, it wasn t obvious to me. you might guess, i m sure he s going to say something of that kind but then there s the small matter of the police investigation which f
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on air don t say it because bob has a tendency to say what we talked about. before we came on the air greg told me something and said don t say anything to bob. you guys are learning. you are whispering to each other while i sit here. i won t do that anymore for a week. there are some positives to company picnics and work place parties. you get to meet people you don t normally talk to, people you snub. people like in the control room who you would never say hello to in the hallways. i have seen you in the hallway and how you look down at everybody. that is not possible. don t play sporting events. if you play company baseball somebody is going to end up with an injury. when you get involved with company sports somebody tries to impress somebody else and turns an ankle. exactly right. that was interesting. up next it has taken an entire year to get this awful