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This Is Why

"Hand on Heart": Boris Johnson swears he’s telling the truth

This Is Why

Sky News

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4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The former prime minister has been questioned by a cross-party group of MPs for more than three hours, with Boris Johnson's political career on the line over COVID rule-breaking parties in Downing Street during lockdown.

He's given evidence to the privileges committee's inquiry, set up after the House of Commons referred the matter last April.

On the Sky News Daily podcast, Sally Lockwood is joined by our chief political correspondent Jon Craig as we examine what's been said, by whom and when, plus - what could happen next?

Annie Joyce – senior podcast producer
Philly Beaumont – editor

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

We're continuing to improve accessibility at many of our stations,

0:08.0

and now over 200 stations and counting have step-free access,

0:13.0

including the entire Elizabeth Line, DLR and all tram stops.

0:17.0

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0:21.7

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0:27.2

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0:30.2

You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you?

0:34.4

Fine, she'd say. She clearly wasn't.

0:42.3

After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with new people, new challenges.

0:49.8

Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. Can't get a word in.

0:55.0

Give your skills new life.

0:56.6

Train others.

0:57.7

Search jobs in further education.

1:01.9

The purpose of this inquiry is not to reopen so-called party gate.

1:06.9

It is to discover whether or not I lied to Parliament, wittingly misled colleagues and the country about what I knew and believed about those gatherings when I said that the rules and the guidance had been followed at number 10.

1:22.7

I am here to say to you, hand on heart, that I did not lie to the house. When those statements were

1:30.2

made, they were made in good faith and on the basis of what I honestly knew and believed at the time.

1:38.4

This hearing wasn't another party gate investigation. We already know parties happened at number

1:43.7

10 during lockdown.

1:45.0

Suitcases of booze being wheeled into Downing Street.

1:49.0

Reckless behaviour at the heart of government by those who'd imposed strict rules on the rest of the country.

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