How damning is the Privileges Committee's report?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The 30,000-word document finds that he committed multiple contempts of parliament, including deliberately misleading the house, deliberately misleading the committee, breaching confidence, impugning the committee and the democratic process of the house and ‘being complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the committee’.
What will these findings mean for Boris? And what has the reaction been in parliament?
Katy Balls speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Heale.
Produced by Cindy Yu and Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:19.4 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots and Spectators' Daily Politics podcast. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm Katie Pauls and I'm joined by Isabelle Hardman and James Heal. |
| 0:27.4 | Well, the Proof of the Justice Committee's report into Boris Johnson is finally in |
| 0:33.0 | and is about as fair to say that it doesn't make for comfortable reading for the Prime Minister. |
| 0:38.3 | No, it doesn't and it's not just damning about the initial reason for the investigation |
| 0:46.4 | into Boris Johnson over misleading the House of Commons over partygate. |
| 0:52.4 | It's also damning about his behaviour during the inquiries, during the committee's investigations |
| 0:59.7 | and also in the aftermath, so in the past week in particular. |
| 1:04.4 | And it makes very clear that the level of sanctions and criticism have significantly |
| 1:11.3 | increased in the past few days as a result of what the committee sees as being |
| 1:17.5 | multiple further instance of contempt in terms of impugning the integrity of the inquiry and so on. |
| 1:25.7 | So it had initially, before he decided to quit as an MP, considered suspending him as an MP for |
| 1:33.8 | 90 days, but put that in the report just to say, well, we would have done this, but instead, |
| 1:41.1 | they are now saying that he should not be allowed to have a former member's pass. |
| 1:46.5 | And of course, that is a recommendation that we voted for on Monday when this was all |
| 1:50.8 | be debated. Now, James, before we get to the reaction so far, you've been combing through the report. |
| 1:57.1 | Ultimately, how have they come to this decision? They're saying that they don't buy the evidence |
| 2:02.0 | Johnson gave them. They listen to others more. What's the process? |
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