Boris Johnson being found to have misled the House of Commons by a committee of Parliament is very serious, and it is right that it has ended his political career, but are we surprised? ✒️ Lying is in his personal and professional DNA - EliotWilson2
If the dwindling band of Boris Johnson cultists are to be believed, we are in the late stages of a witch hunt. The innocent victim, you understand, is Johnson himself, the charismatic hero of the people who “got Brexit done” and is now brought low by a strange coalition of Rishi Sunak supporters, embittered Remainers and the civil service “blob”. The
: this is an attempt “to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result.”. It found that Johnson misled parliament on five different occasions and should he have not already resigned, the former PM would have been suspended for 90 days. The committee was instructed by the House in April 2022 to consider the assurances Johnson had given about the legality of meetings in Downing Street during lockdown——and whether these were true. Given the extraordinary level of public interest, and the confusing nature of some assertions, this was a sensible decision by the House: the committee exists to examine potential contempts or breaches of privilege, which are acts or failures to act which may hinder the work of the Commons.
had concluded its inquiries. At length, Johnson was summoned to appear before the committee in March, before which he had engaged the eminent Lord Pannick KC to produce a legal opinion which said, effectively and extremely tendentiously, that the process was not fair. That would set the tenor for much of Johnson’s reaction.
It is an indispensable tenet of our system that politicians must be honest in Parliament. We entrust our leaders with enormous power and it is an absolutely necessarythat they do not lie about what they are doing.
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