Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament over Partygate
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Janet Jalil and on Thursday 15 June these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.4 | A damning report finds a former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson deliberately lied to Parliament. |
| 0:16.9 | People in North Korea risk their lives to tell the BBC about widespread starvation. |
| 0:23.3 | More than 170,000 people are evacuated as a cyclone near India and Pakistan. |
| 0:30.5 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:37.9 | How Beyoncé caused inflation to rise in Sweden. |
| 0:46.8 | An eagerly anticipated report by British MPs has found that the former Prime Minister, |
| 0:52.4 | Boris Johnson, deliberately lied to Parliament over gatherings at his official residence during |
| 0:57.7 | coronavirus lockdowns. It's a dramatic fall for a man who only a year ago was leading Britain |
| 1:03.9 | after having successfully engineered Brexit and won a landslide victory. |
| 1:09.1 | A campaign group which represents families bereaved by Covid said that the report had shown |
| 1:13.9 | how Mr Johnson had, quote, broken his own rules so he could have a party and a laugh, |
| 1:20.3 | as families were saying goodbye to loved ones over Zoom. |
| 1:23.6 | Last week Mr Johnson resigned as an MP calling the committee investigating him a kangaroo court. |
| 1:30.0 | It has now hit back, saying he has impugned its work and undermined the democratic process. |
| 1:36.6 | So a damning and unprecedented report in the way it's had managed a former Prime Minister over his conduct. |
| 1:43.9 | Our political correspondent is Rob Watson. |
| 1:46.3 | It is indeed and some 1000 years have British Parliamentary history. |
| 1:51.9 | I don't think that any former Prime Minister or Prime Minister or senior minister has been on |
| 1:57.4 | the receiving end of such an utterly damning report because although it's quite long, it's a |
| 2:01.9 | 30,000 words, like a sort of small novel or something, I mean essentially it's quite simple. |
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