The many lies of Boris Johnson
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson repeatedly knowingly misled the House of Commons, in other words he repeatedly lied.
These are the conclusions and findings of Parliament's Privileges Committee, established unanimously by MPs to investigate claims Johnson knowingly misled them over partygate, thereby breaking rule no 1 of the British constitution: never *ever* lie to the Commons.
It's a huge political day and although Johnson has already fled Parliament by resigning, the consequences are still massive. Johnson wanted his place in the history books, in becoming the first PM to be found to have lied to the Commons, judged by his own peers, he's finally got it.
Emily, Lewis and Jon talk through this latest day in the lows and lows of Boris Johnson's recent political career: what it means for Sunak, for the Tories, for the man himself and for Parliament.
The agents are joined by the woman who brought Johnson down, Guardian Political Editor Pippa Crerar; former Chief of Staff to Theresa May, Lord Gavin Barwell and Johnson defender and ally, former Tory MEP David Campbell-Bannerman.
PS Jon came straight to News Agents HQ off the red eye from Miami, so forgive any lapses. Now a News Agent, always a trooper.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | Well, choose your word. |
| 0:13.4 | Eviscerating, excoriating, damning, scathing, scathing, one of them, maybe all four. |
| 0:20.2 | If this report is to be believed, Boris Johnson is in contempt and contemptible. |
| 0:26.8 | The Privileges Committee of the House of Commons, the body which the House of Commons itself, |
| 0:32.7 | asked to investigate the question of whether or not Boris Johnson knowingly misled MPs over Partygate has found that he did and then some, that he did so on multiple occasions, that he did so again after he stopped being Prime Minister to the committee's investigation and has also found him in contempt of Parliament for the way he's described that |
| 0:57.0 | committee and its work, condemning it as a so-called kangaroo court. This has never happened before. |
| 1:04.6 | A Prime Minister has never been found to have knowingly misled Parliament judged by his own peers. |
| 1:12.5 | One senior Conservative told me today, no one survives contact with Boris Johnson, including |
| 1:19.1 | we now see Boris Johnson. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:27.1 | The Newsagents. It's Lewis in London. |
| 1:30.3 | It's John in London. |
| 1:31.8 | It's Emily at a tech conference just outside London. |
| 1:35.0 | Can we just labour over that just slightly, Emily? |
| 1:37.2 | I mean, you are, I think it's fair to say. |
| 1:39.3 | One of the less techy people that I know, and they've got you there, have they? |
| 1:42.5 | That's nice. |
| 1:43.3 | I've been asking where the printer is and why it's broken. So that's my contribution to technology in the digital |
| 1:49.5 | age, yeah. And John's just in from Miami, of course. Well, let me give you two lyrics of a song. |
| 1:54.0 | Flew in from Miami Beach, B-O-A-C, didn't get to bed last night. And then they wrote it for you. Clearly. The Beatles always have me in mind. |
| 2:03.2 | I thought that was pit bull. |
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