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4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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What next for Boris Johnson after Privileges Committee says he deliberately misled the Commons?

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

Hello, a long-running political story with lots of strands has culminated in a 30,000

0:10.8

word document. What could be better as a story for newscast than finally the House of Commons

0:18.5

Privileges Committee publishing the report into whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament

0:24.0

in his various statements about the story that the King known as party gate. And they

0:29.3

have found, well, kind of, 30,000 reasons that he did. So that's an this special emergency

0:35.7

episode of newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC.

0:42.4

He got trounced by the former Prime Minister who herself got beaten by a letter.

0:46.9

At least I didn't slap anybody which is good.

0:49.0

It's the Guardian reading. Tofu eating.

0:54.2

I'm actually very right-wing. You do come up with the most remarkable twaddle.

0:58.4

Today I feel gay. The Prime Minister is not under a desk.

1:02.6

I'm here because I like Harry and Meghan and I don't care what anybody says about me.

1:07.1

Hello, it's Adam in the studio. And it's Chris at Westminster.

1:10.1

Much happening. No. It's all pretty quiet. You know, there's people out having a sandwich

1:14.8

in a bit of sunbathing in Victoria Gardens next to Parliament.

1:17.8

I got to join them myself. So nine o'clock this morning on the dot,

1:21.9

the Privileges Committee report landed. It's 1708 ages.

1:26.1

There we are. That's the sound of it.

1:27.4

Thudding onto the desk. But you don't really need to read all of it, though, do you?

1:31.3

You don't, although I am endeavouring to, as we record it sort of quarter to two,

1:34.6

I haven't managed every conceivable syllable in every annex, but I've read most of it.

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