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Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over Covid lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street when he was prime minister, a UK parliament committee ruled on Thursday. The committee's long-awaited 106-page report was even more critical than expected, particularly in relation to the sanction it would have recommended. The cross-party Privileges Committee said Johnson, 58, would have been suspended as an MP for 90 days for "repeated contempt (of parliament) and for seeking to undermine the parliamentary process". But he avoided any formal sanction by his peers in the House of Commons by resigning as an MP last week. For more in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the committee's "Partygate" scandal findings and Johnson's "really unlikely" return to frontline politics, FRANCE 24's Nadia Massih is joined by Dr. Craig Prescott, Lecturer in Law. An expert in UK Constitutional Law and politics, Dr. Prescott has a particular focus on the monar
ROBERT HARDMAN: Under proposals expected to come before Parliament, the King will be able to draw on a pool of substitutes for constitutional duties when he is out of the country.
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