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One way or the other, the net effect is
We can either choose to believe this or not – many people certainly did apply a far stricter interpretation of Covid-era rules on socialising. But in essence, while admitting that he misled Parliament in saying that no rules were broken, Johnson is banking on convincing the committee that the advice he received was so ambiguous and inconsistent that he should not risk the ultimate penalty of a lengthy suspension from Parliament, triggering a by-election.
When we cut through a lot of wounded self-regard about how stacked the system is against him, the success or failure ofof whether he “recklessly” or “knowingly” misled Parliament. The pressure point will be that he had ample time to correct the parliamentary record and that there were enough doubts on his own senior team to suggest that he should, in messages such as: “Struggling to come up with a way this one is within the rules.
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