thank you very much indeed, img or i am joined now by labour s thangam debbonaire, shadow leader of the commons. are there legitimate questions here about bernard jenkin? as you just heard kath haddin explain, iwant as you just heard kath haddin explain, i want to explain, this was an inquiry about whether on not borisjohnson had lied and misled the house of commons and by extension the public and if so, whether or not he corrected the record. it was not an investigation into whether or not they were lockdown parties, we know that there were. we have had a police investigation and the sue gray investigation and the sue gray investigation this was specifically about whether or not he misled the house, and we constituted that committee as a house, we voted for that committee to conduct this inquiry, we know what the rules of the inquiry are, we voted for harriet harman to chair it and they have done theirjob and they have sifted the evidence and we will read it tomorrow morning. but sift
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soon as it was clear that i was wrong, and as soon as the sue gray investigation and the metropolitan police investigation had concluded, i came to the house of commons and i corrected the record as i promised i would. i clearly could not have anticipated the outcome by coming earlier because i genuinely did not know what the outcome would be. and was deeply shocked when fines were issued, not least since i had been told on a couple of occasions at least, bite sue gray, that she did not think the threshold of criminality had been breached. i believe the committee s work helps to explain why i was so shocked. you have been investigating this for more than ten months and i thank you for what you have done. you have had access to a vast body of evidence, you have collected and reviewed hundreds of pages of transcripts and sue gray s interviews and you have
answer all those theme. the man who is going to answer all those questions, - theme. the man who is going to answer all those questions, i - theme. the man who is going to i answer all those questions, i don t know if he has sat down yet. i don t think things will start very readily without him. there will be lots of people in the house of commons glued to this committee hearing. in their own offices, politicians from every party will be taking an interest in this. , , ., , ., this. this is the final instalment in the partygate this. this is the final instalment in the partygate saga, - this. this is the final instalment in the partygate saga, if- this. this is the final instalment in the partygate saga, if the - this. this is the final instalmentl in the partygate saga, if the met police investigation into what went on was the first part, we had the report by the ben senior servant sue gray, this is the conclusion to that whole investigation. in its essence it is a very parliament
followed completely during number ten, but i repeat, mr speaker, i have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged, that there was no party and that no covid rules were broken. that is what i have been repeatedly assured. i apologise for the impression that has been given, that staff in downing street take this seriously. i am second myself an theorist by that. i repeat what i have said to him, but i have been repeatedly assured that the rules. i am second and furious by that. the prime minister second and furious by that. tue: prime minister has been second and furious by that. ti2 prime minister has been caught red handed, why does he not enter the investigation now by admitting it? i