Boris Johnson has simply been fully torn aside within the parliamentary privileges committee’s report into partygate – and Twitter can’t get sufficient.
The long-awaited report dived into whether or not Johnson intentionally misled the home of Commons by standing on the despatch field as prime minister and saying no Covid lockdown guidelines had been damaged in Downing Road.
He was later fined for breaching his personal lockdown measures behind the doorways of No.10.
On Thursday, following an in-depth investigation, the committee declared the previous prime minister and ex-MP intentionally misled the Commons, impugned the committee and was then “complicit within the marketing campaign of abuse and tried intimidation” of its members.
It really helpful that Johnson shouldn’t obtain a former member’s parliamentary move, which all ex-MPs are entitled to. It additionally claimed that if he had been nonetheless a sitting MP then they might have suggested a 90-day suspension for him – that’s about as extreme a punishment because the Commons can ship.
Whereas the sanctions within the report must be voted on by MPs, the report was about as brutal because it might have been, including that there’s “no precedent” for a chief minister to have intentionally misled the Commons like this.
“He misled the Home on a problem of the best significance to the Home and to the general public, and did so repeatedly,” the report defined.
Johnson himself has dismissed its findings as a “charade”, calling the committee a “kangaroo court docket” whose objective “has been to seek out me responsible whatever the details”.
It’s price remembering that the privileges committee is a cross-party group of MPs with a Tory majority.
Johnson furiously stepped down as a Tory MP final week after seeing the report prematurely. He has admitted that his statements to the Home did misled parliament about partygate, however claims he didn’t achieve this deliberately or recklessly.
However Twitter has no regret for Johnson at this time, and as an alternative celebrated his “comeuppance”:
