The contempt was all the more serious because it was committed by the Prime Minister, the most senior member of the government. “We have concluded above that in deliberately misleading the House, Mr Johnson committed a serious contempt. The committee’s long-awaited, 106-page report was even more critical than expected, particularly in relation to the sanctions it would have recommended. “A lot of people in Westminster are saying this does in effect draw a line under the Johnson era – and his political career,” Gallego said. She described the report as a “damning response” to Johnson’s behaviour during the health crisis. The full House of Commons will now debate the committee’s report and decide whether it concurs with the panel’s findings and recommended sanctions.Īl Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego, reporting from London, said the implications of the report “are too serious to ignore”. The parties in 20, which were reportedly boozy affairs and in contravention of social distancing measures in place at the time, undermined his credibility and contributed to his downfall, the committee of lawmakers said.Ī majority of the panel’s seven members of the House of Commons Privileges Committee come from Johnson’s Conservative Party. Johnson, 58, called the report a “protracted political assassination”. Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s former prime minister who was in power during the pandemic, deliberately misled parliament over lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street, a parliamentary committee ruled on Thursday.Īfter a yearlong investigation, the committee said Johnson would have been suspended as an MP for 90 days for “repeated” contempt of parliament had he not angrily resigned last week.
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