city hall. oddly he has a lifetime appointment of the house of lords, the uk s version of the senate. the man that gave that appointment is boris. it also comes days after boris was found to giving unsustainable determined to the terminations of the roles he helped to write. he continues to insist that the parties were central for work purposes. parliament was scheduled to vote monday on whether to accept the findings of the report which could have landed him a 90 day suspension but since boris resigned ahead of the release they will now debate whether he should get the customary former members pass
city hall. he has a lifetime appointment to the house of lords, the uk version of the senate. the man who made that appointment is boris johnson. the video s release also comes days after a parliamentary committee report found johnson deliberately misled parliament about his own separate lockdown parties. the report found johnson gave unsustainable interpretations of the rules that he helped to write with. for example, he insisted and continues to insist in some cases that the parties were essential for work purposes. parliament was scheduled to vote monday on whether to accept the findings of the report which could have landed him a 90-day suspension, but since johnson resigned as an mp in advance of the report s release calling it a witch hunt, they will now debate whether he should even get the customary former members pass to enter parliament at all. scott mcclain, cnn london.
separate lockdown parties, a half a dozen of them were investigated. some of them were leaving drinks, one of them involved 200 people invited to bring their own booze. the report found johnson gave unsustainable interpretations of the very rules he helped to right. for example, he insisted and continues to insist in some cases that some of those parties were essential for work purposes. it s actually tomorrow when the british parliament will vote on whether to approve this report s findings and the punishment it entails, which would have been 90 days suspended from parliament as an mp. boris johnson has already resigned as a back bench mp. he called the whole process a witch hunt. alex? we all remember how dark and scary the mood was at the end of 2020. apparently not at british
gentlemen, is that all guidance was followed completely during number ten. reporter: so the committee was made up mostly of conservatives, boris johnson s own party looking at six gatherings, one of them was boris johnson s birthday party one of them had 200 people who were invited to bring their own booze and ultimately the committee determined that boris johnson did mislead parliament for giving unsustainable interpretations of the rules he helped to right. for instance, he claimed at the time and in some cases continues to claim that some of the gatherings were essential for work purposes. so the committee found in its report, i ll read part of it, we came to the view that some of mr. johnson s denials and explanations were so disingenuous they were, by their very nature, deliberate attempts to mislead the committee and the house, while others demonstrated
mrjohnson s wife, who the committee say consider cannot be considered as an absolutely necessary participant the installation in the garden of trestle tables, and alcohol available. they say there is evidence of a number of people in attendance increased during the time mrjohnson was at the gathering. and, taking the language of the rules in place at the time of this, backin rules in place at the time of this, back in may 2020, it would have been, we know the gathering, they say, for it to have been combined with the rules, it would have had to have been essential for work purposes. they do not consider, the committee say, that the gathering was held purely for the purposes of raising morale as being essential for work purposes. moreover, they set out in further detail than they do not believe mrjohnson would have advised the public that this was the case had he been asked at the time. so, one example they are via the committee believes that mrjohnson s account of the events and rules