Boris Johnson report: Brutal, damning, but can he really say ‘vindictive’?
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🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The House of Commons Privileges Committee recommended a 90-day suspension, but as the former prime minister has already resigned as an MP, the Commons could now vote for his right to enter the Parliamentary estate to be revoked.
Mr Johnson has called the findings “a lie” and described the report as a "political assassination".
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby to discuss the report and look at what’s next for the former Prime Minister.
Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 1:03.8 | I'm Neil Patterson. Boris Johnson is a liar. Now I hasten to, those are not my words, but those of Mr Johnson's former colleagues in Parliament, the psychodrama that is Westminster politics, emphasis on drama, well, it's just taken another dramatic term. |
| 1:24.6 | The Privileges Committee, that's the group of MPs that's been looking |
| 1:28.0 | into Boris Johnson's behaviour. They have now finally published their report. And look, given that the |
| 1:34.3 | former Prime Minister was given advance sight of the report and then immediately announced his |
| 1:39.3 | intention to resign, well, you didn't have to be a political editor to assume that it didn't |
| 1:44.0 | make for great |
| 1:44.8 | reading. But now that we've all had time to go through the report in detail, it is perhaps |
| 1:51.1 | even more damning than anyone had expected. And Boris Johnson says he doesn't accept a word of it. |
| 1:59.9 | So what did the committee actually conclude? |
| 2:03.0 | And is this the end of the political ambitions of the man who told his eaten counterparts |
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