on in downing street during the very covid restrictions he d imposed on the rest of us? all guidance was followed completely during number 10. really? there was no party, and that no covid rules were broken. a senior civil servant, sue gray, investigated. so, too, the police. today, another page turns. the conclusion devastating for mrjohnson. let s be blunt, this report concludes that he lied. it says he deliberately misled mps, he deliberately misled the committee. he breached their confidence by saying out loud what was in their report before they did, and that he was complicit in a campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the committee. look at what else the committee had to say. it takes aim at the frequency with which he closed his mind to the truth . and it said some of mrjohnson s denials and explanations were so disingenuous that they were deliberate attempts to mislead . is this the end, mrjohnson? we re shouting at boris johnson because he said no to a
it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we start in the uk, where the conservative party is bitterly divided after the former prime minister boris johnson was found to have misled parliament. a damning report by senior mps concluded he deliberately misled the house of commons about lockdown parties at downing street. they say he would have been suspended if he hadn t already quit. but mrjohnson has described the report as rubbish and deranged . the findings must now be voted on ensuring more re criminations. our political editor chris mason reports. so many chapters of boris johnson s life have his relationship with the truth running straight through them. today, the latest chapter a committee of his peers throwing the book at him. was he honest about what went
disclosed all of this information about russia had it chose to do so. the problem was it was assuming hillary clinton would win. it did not want to feed the narrative that the u.s. government was putting the thumb its thumb on the scales and then when the election outcome happened which shocked the political world as we all know, these re criminations followed. director comey wanted to put more information out there about russia. it was the obama doj, let s not forget, that pulled him back in because it was not wanting to feed the trump narrative of a rigged election and they were assuming that hillary would win. so they re not the same situation between the e-mail scandal and the still unknown russian scandal. we don t know the extent of collusion even if there was any. so there s a big disparity in information do you think we re doing enough? do you think we re doing enough to find out whether russia was, in fact, infill rating our election? do i think we re doing enough? i t