Theresa May calls out Boris Johnson for repeatedly misleading Parliament and urges MPs to back a report branding him a liar.
No 10 said his schedule on Monday ‘does not include attending Parliament’ and that he has commitments he ‘can’t move’.
The cross-party committee concluded that Mr Johnson, who quit as an MP and labelled the probe a ;kangaroo court’ after being told in advance of its findings, should have faced a 90-day suspension for misleading the House when he told the Commons that Covid rules were obeyed in No 10 despite parties taking place.
It also recommended banning the ex-PM from receiving a pass to Parliament which is usually available to former MPs. It is not clear whether there will ultimately be a vote on the conclusions of the report, which could go through on the nod unless there are objections from Mr Johnson’s supporters.supports HTML5 video‘It is not easy to sit in judgment on friends and colleagues,’ she said, adding that ‘but friendship, working together, should not get in the way of doing what is right’.
‘I commend the members of the Privileges Committee for their painstaking work, and for their dignity in the face of slurs on their integrity.
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