Partygate: The Afterparty

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The BBC's Adam Fleming, Chris Mason and Vicki Young are joined by Will Walden, Boris Johnson's former Director of Communications, to dissect the key moments of Boris Johnson’s grilling by MPs over the Partygate scandal. They also discuss the day’s other big Westminster stories. Today’s Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming and Chris Mason. It was made by Sam Bonham with Cordelia Hemming and Cat Farnsworth.

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0:00.0	Hello so much news today to get through but the big event was Boris Johnson the former
0:08.9	Prime Minister giving evidence to the privileges committee for three hours in Parliament
0:13.8	in part of their investigation into whether he misled Parliament in his statements about
0:18.6	party gate over the last few years.
0:21.1	This was a chance for us to see and hear the Prime Minister making his case in his own
0:26.0	words and it was a case that sounded a little bit like this.
0:29.7	I am here to say to you hand on heart that I did not lie to the House when those statements
0:36.7	were made they were made in good faith and on the basis of what I honestly knew and believed
0:43.5	at the time.
0:45.2	When this inquiry was set up I was completely confident that you would find nothing to
0:49.7	show I knew or believed anything else.
0:53.1	As indeed you have not.
0:55.6	I was confident not because there has been some kind of cover up.
0:59.1	I was confident because I knew that is what I believed and that is why I said it.
1:05.8	We will chew over the Prime Minister's evidence and a few of the other things that have
1:09.4	happened today in this episode of newscast.
1:11.7	Newscast.
1:12.7	Newscast from the BBC.
1:13.7	He got trounced by the former Prime Minister who herself got beaten by a letter.
1:18.7	At least I didn't slap anybody which is good.
1:20.8	Rean economy.
1:21.8	La la la.
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