The British Parliament considers it proven that Boris Johnson lied about Partygate and will not be able to enter the chamber

Britain’s parliament voted overwhelmingly (354 votes to 7) this Monday to approve a report by the Privileges Committee that found former prime minister Boris Johnson had repeatedly and knowingly lied to the House of Commons about parties organized at government headquarters amid the pandemic, a case known as Partygate.

The result of the vote, apart from its political consequences, is that Johnson’s special permission to access parliament has been withdrawn. The rest of the sanctions will not be effective, because he has already resigned from his post.

During the Partygate debate, MPs singled out Johnson as an example to avoid in a debate over a report which concluded he had “deliberately misled” parliament about parties held in Downing Street, known as Partygate.

The leader of the House of Commons (the government’s representative before this body), Penny Mordaunt, urged MPs “not to follow the lead” of the former Conservative prime minister, accused of “misleading” Parliament in a report whose recommendations were being debated. this Monday, and this was revealed last week by the so-called Privileges Committee.

Introducing the motion to the Commons, before voting on the report, Mordaunt recalled that the document considered the former leader Tory “deliberately misled Parliament and thereby caused grave contempt.” He added that, according to the document, “Johnson breached trust, undermined the democratic process of this House and was complicit in a campaign of bullying and an attempt to intimidate the committee.” Mordaunt, who had expected his support for the motion, urged MPs, whom he called “decent people”, to “not follow Johnson’s example”.

The chair of the Privileges Committee, Labour’s Harriet Harman, also intervened, defending the investigation and concluding that Johnson had “misled” MPs on numerous occasions. “He knew the rules were being broken. And cheating is not a technicality, but a matter of great importance. “Ministers have to be honest, if not, we won’t be able to do our job,” Harman defended.

In defense of Johnson

Labor was interrupted by Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg, one of Johnson’s big allies, who reminded her of some tweets she felt called her integrity into question, to which Harman replied that she had already made her position available to the Government. if he felt that his impartiality was threatened.

For her part, former Prime Minister Theresa May thanked the Privileges Committee for their “work” and called the report “rigorous”.

According to the committee document, which Johnson called “garbage,” the firstPrime Minister committed “repeated disparagement” of parliament by misleading parliamentarians when he denied that social distancing rules put in place at the time to curb the spread of the coronavirus had been breached.