Boris Johnson swore an oath on the Bible to tell the truth. The Bible has been taken away with scorch marks on it. ✒️ olyduff for ipaperviews
Boris Johnson makes his opening statement in front of the Privileges Committee he gave evidence at the inquiry into how he misled ParliamentThere is a falsehood at the heart of his defence. The “assurances” he received about lockdown parties were not, in fact, assurances that there hadn’t been any wrongdoing . Instead, they were exchanges with his press chief Jack Doyle about “lines-to-take” to limit bad media coverage. And even Doyle had private doubts.
So this leaves Johnson vulnerable to a finding that he “recklessly” misled the Commons because “you did not take proper advice”, as Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin put it to him. It would constitute contempt of Parliament,The second hole in his argument is why he waited so long to correct the official record, after the evidence piled up about Downing Street’s lockdown parties. Again this opens him to a contempt finding.
The third major flaw is his claim that drinks events were “essential” – effectively suggesting that the function of government could not have continued undamaged if those leaving parties had been delayed a few months. This stretches credulity. At the time, people’s relatives were dying alone. Medics in Covid wards were watching their colleagues perish.For a man so accomplished at manipulating the English language, it was a torturous encounter with contradiction and semantic cul-de-sacs.
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