Boris Johnson has imploded in quite the most spectacular and, frankly, embarrassing way possible,

as he was summoned before MPs to try and defend himself from accusations that he willfully

recklessly misled the House of Commons. That's because the former Prime Minister took the piss

partied throughout the lockdown that he imposed, so we had this lockdown where we were barging

in very basic things, hugging people, partying, gungards of funerals, couldn't hold the hands

of our dying relatives. But Boris Johnson, on the other hand, number 10, the Hacienda upon the

Thames, as it became, a party central during that lockdown, we're just going to talk about Boris

Johnson, and I'm going to have just look at what he said, because it really is so reasonable.

But I also, in typical style, I would hope, without writing my own reviews, like to draw some

wider lessons, not just about Boris Johnson but about the establishment.

Now, let's just, let's just hear what he, how he opened, shall we?

I am here to say to you, hand on heart, that I did not lie to the House.

When those statements were made, they were made in good faith, and on the basis of what I honestly

knew and believed at the time. When this inquiry was set up, I was completely confident that you would

find nothing to show I knew or believed anything else. As indeed, you have not.

I swear by Almighty God that the evidence I shall give for this committee to be the truth,

the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Now, the question here isn't whether he misled the House. He did mislead the House,

and in fact, he has said he's misled the House.

I apologise. I apologise for inadvertently misleading this House, but to say that I did it

recklessly or deliberately is completely unproved. That's the question.

Did he recklessly mislead the House or did he deliberately do so?

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