welcome, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. let s start by going to westminster. in the next 30 minutes mps will debate that dramatic report from last week which found boris johnson repeatedly misled parliament about lockdown parties at downing street. he called that conclusions arranged and described the committee which carried out the investigation as a kangaroo court. they recommended a 90 day suspension but mrjohnson had stood down as an mp. 0ne mrjohnson had stood down as an mp. one more thing to the mix, the bbc has seen in invitation to a jingle and mingle event from december 2020, held at conservative headquarters when london was under cupboard restrictions banning indoor socialising. video of the event emerged over the weekend showing a roomful of people in close proximity with some apparentlyjoking about covid regulations. let s bring you the latest. rishi sunak is not expected to attend this afternoon s debate. the prime ministe
the scene. not for him the hanging around to accept his punishment and the verdict of his peers. he was such a coward when it came to this, that he would quickly was out of his seat and beyond the clutches of this parliament. but almost unbelievably, there are some who still hanker for this notion, this fantasy that he will have some sort of route back to elected politics. it is hard to imagine a situation or a setting when that would be allowed in this house. i think we can conclude today that he is toast and thank goodness he is gone. but i have to come back to the party opposite and some of the responses of honourable gentlemen and ladies about boris johnson because they knew everything about him. he is a serial person who was sacked. the very places he worked in that he was sacked from, yet they made him prime minister. i made most maiden speech the same day as borisjohnson and i actually followed him from these benches the day he made his maiden speech. even at that poin
Not be granted a former member s pass. how ridiculous we look, but yet the committee itself is hamstrung at the very regulations. this report is not a panacea for democratic practice in the house of commons for the british state. this is not an answer. but it does give evidence to the former member of uxbridge, who lives through their teeth, who partied on while our constituents were dying. working class communities, the length and breadth of these islands, as i think the honourable memberfor weaver dale was talking about earlier, people driving ambulances, paramedics, orderlies and hospitals who couldn t get ppe even though we see them being dumped in fields in the shires of england in the last couple of days. how ridiculous that communities like mine had to suffer the indignity of that buffoon
Closing remarks, which is why what we do this afternoon, whichever way we do this afternoon, whichever way we decide to vote or not to vote, why it matters. the real world consequences of a vote today may seem to come down to whether the former memberfor seem to come down to whether the former member for uxbridge seem to come down to whether the former memberfor uxbridge has seem to come down to whether the former member for uxbridge has a pass to the estate, and our constituents may not appreciate why we are focused on contempt towards the house, as opposed to contempts they may feel have been made against them. the lockdown breaches themselves, which great hard with those who sacrificed so much to keep us safe. which grate hard. orfor others, on wider issues such as the debasement of our honour system. but we would be wrong to think there is no meaningful consequence to our actions this afternoon. the work of