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
because we must not tolerate the casual disregard for truth that has become the hallmark of this government. it should shame us all. we are honourable members of parliament. it isn tjust a title. it is something we should hold dear. we should be honourable in what we do in this place. we should be honourable to the people we serve because they have elected us. and democracy demands honourable conduct and we haven t seen much of that over the last few years. and if we allow lies to go unchecked and deceit to become the norm, then our democracy begins to crumble and that s what s been happening. we sit here time and time again, we see ministers coming to the dispatch box and we say, that s not true and then they say, we aren t allowed to say it isn t true. we have to say that they inadvertently misled the house and they will correct the record, and they will correct the record, and they will correct the record, and they never come back. they tell and they never come back. they