They found Boris guilty of lying about breaking rules at events that the Met Police deemed were necessary at the time he was at them. (Effectively telling him he broke the law, doing 40mph in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Could be used by the House against any rule that he may have been found to have broken along the way even if the rules are deemed to have changed after the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
People are showing their tribal instincts here and it completely misses the point
I don’t give a monkeys whether Keir Starmer had a beer in Durham or not at this stage. It was two years ago!
After reading the full 110 pages my overriding conclusion is that the Privileges Committee Report into whether Boris Johnson intentionally misled Parliament is a confused word salad of conjecture, contradiction and is rather misleading in and of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The basic conclusion of the Privilege Committee investigation is that they find Boris Johnson intentionally misled the house and, in so doing, is found in contempt of the house
Their initial ‘warning’ to BJ was that they were going to recommend a sanction of suspension that would be long enough to cause a recall petition in his constituency
Events then moved very quickly they increased their recommendations to 90 days&removal of his parliamentary pass
Guess who was invited in to HoC to speak at the Committee on standards on December 8th 2020(a year to the date of Allegra Stratton video) to discuss MPs code of conduct&the Ministerial code: whether and how the system should change?
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Did #SueGray gather the evidence and report the facts of gatherings in Downing Street or did she set the narrative and set the wheels in motion to oust a democratically elected PM? 🧵👇
Was she motivated by her politics or did she simply report the facts?
There were parties - no one is denying that but was her first report prejudicial and was it even necessary?
Imo there are two main aspects of her first report that I find troubling
(FTR the second report I have no issue with- the damage was already done imo by the first)
1. Timings - as I have set out in a previous thread