Stephen Flynn : "Johnson is a liar"
Laura Kuenssberg : "That’s quite a charge"
Question of the day, is Johnson a pathological liar?
#JohnsonTheLiar
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"Johnson is the most accomplished liar in public life" - Rory Stewart
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@queenchristina_ "Johnson is a pathological liar"
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Johnson told Ian Paisley - before the election - he was going to tear up the protocol
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as Mayor of London
2010 - "I'm not cutting fire services"
2013 - Johnson cuts fire services
A London assembly member called him a liar after he promised he wouldn't
Johnson responded with "Oh get stuffed!"
"We had these problems before, John Major brought out the Nolan principles, in those days people would have resigned" - @adilray
Bercow - "The difference is... Johnson is an habitual liar"
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Dawn Butler listed Johnson's lies in the House of Commons
She was told to leave, not because she told the truth, but because she called Johnson a liar...
cc @DawnButlerBrent
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Johnson January 2020- "There is no threat to the Erasmus scheme"
December 2020 - Erasmus scrapped
cc @DougChapmanSNP
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"Boris Johnson is a serial liar" - Ian Blackford
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Johnson started his Big Red Bus tour in Truro, Cornwall
He said why send money to the EU when we can give it to Cornwall
They had £100m a year in funding in the EU
Johnson gave them £1m after Brexit
cc @WCountryVoices
westcountryvoices.co.uk/weve-all-been-…
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"Eight false claims made in Boris Johnson’s Conservative party conference speech"
Afzal Khan expressed his grief after he lost his mom to covid
He asked when Johnson was going to apologise for continuing to lie about his parties
Hoyle chided him for calling Johnson a liar
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"Johnson is an unrepentant and inveterate liar"
Sylvie Bermann - Former French Ambassador to the UK
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There's even a book
"The Little Black Book of Lying Boris Johnson"
by @kyletaylor
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Omar Salem : "The NHS has been destroyed... and now you come here for a press opportunity"
Johnson : "There are no press here"
Omar Salem : [Points to BBC crew]
cc @OmarSalem
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There was a *parliamentary debate* on Johnson's lying
"Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
Volume 712: debated on Thursday 21 April 2022"
"The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is a liar"
"We need to stop being surprised and exasperated by Boris Johnson lying again & again and come to terms with how & why we came to have a political system/society that rewards & facilitates such behaviour"
Editor of @BylineTimes
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"It used to be that ministers would resign if they misled Parliament - Boris Johnson is making a career out of it"
Caroline Lucas
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"Johnson is a pathological liar, which is one of the defining characteristics of a psychopath"
From a Professor of Clinical Psychology
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After claiming that the European Super League was brilliant
He then claimed he saw it off - not the football fans...
cc @BestForBritain
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Jacinda Ardern in 2012
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"Johnson’s Lies Worked for Years"
Listing some of Johnson's lies over the years
By @sarahlyall for the New York Times
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"Boris Johnson is a liar, a charlatan and a narcissist"
The New Statesman not holding back - in 2017
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Johnson is a "known liar"
@dorotheabyrne was head of news and current affairs at Channel 4 at the time
She called on broadcasters to challenge Johnson's lies
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"Barring a political miracle, Boris Johnson will become Britain's new prime minister - the notorious liar"
"the notorious liar" - "der notorische Lügner"
Der Spiegel not messing around in 2019
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"Johnson lying again"
Annette Dittert - London correspondent for Germany's public broadcaster
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List of Johnson's lies to Parliament
From Peter Oborne
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"Johnson's been sacked twice for lying. It's not libellous or slanderous to call him a liar, because it's a demonstrable fact."
From a former BBC Journalist / Producer
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"The former leader had no regard for truthfulness, and now we see others happy to follow his example, knowing the system rarely holds them to account"
@pollytoynbee for the Guardian yesterday
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Johnson presented a kipper as an example of EU regulations
The kipper was from the Isle of Man
The Isle of Man is not in the EU, nor the UK
The EU later debunked the lie
The frozen bag thing was a UK regulation
#JohnsonTheLiar
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Johnson said he was only a "handful" of points behind Labour when he stepped down
A YouGov poll on 7 July had Tories at 29 points and Labour at 40 points
Johnson finally quit on 6 Sep, Tories were 28 points, Labour were 43 points
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"What do we do, when a known liar becomes Prime Minister"
Worth a watch
@dorotheabyrne, former head of news and current affairs at Channel 4, called on broadcasters to challenge Johnson's lies and call out politicians who lie
From 2019
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