Boris Johnson “deliberately misled” the UK Parliament, according to the ‘partygate’ report

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson “deliberately misled” the House of Commons over the ‘partygate‘, the parties at the residence on Downing Street during the pandemic, according to the conclusion of a parliamentary committee.

“We came to the conclusion that when you told the House and this committee that the rules and guidance were being followedhis own knowledge was such that he deliberately misled the House and this committee,” according to the report of the Commons Privileges Committee, which investigated partygate for more than a year.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has already responded to the report, calling it “garbage”. “The committee says that I deliberately misled the House and that when I spoke I was knowingly withholding from the House my knowledge of wrongdoing. That is rubbish. It’s a lie. To reach this crazy conclusion, the committee sees itself forced to say a series of things that are absurd or that the facts contradict”, has asserted the ex ‘premier’.

Johnson, who was at the head of the Government between July 2019 and September 2022, announced last Friday that he was leaving his seat with immediate effect as an MP for the English constituency of Uxbridge & South Ruislip, on the grounds that the committee had “made it clear” to him in a letter that it was preparing to expel him from the House.

The current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, was also present at the famous clandestine parties that Boris Johnson organized in full confinement by COVID-19. Specifically, at the then ‘premier’s’ birthday party. He paid a fine of less than 50 euros and had to apologize to the British.

Partygate and the report that brought Johnson down

In June 2022, the official Sue Gray was commissioned to produce an extensive independent report on the scandal. In the report, Sue Gray called on the Government take responsibility for what happened and criticized the high consumption of alcohol in these events. A week later, the British Conservatives forced a motion of confidence in which, despite the fact that Johnson managed to stay in power, he began his decline due to the loss of confidence of more than 40% of his parliamentarians.

The document, made up of 37 pagesdetailed what happened at various parties, which were held in the period between May 20, 2020 and April 16, 2021, when the United Kingdom complied with strict restrictive measures in order to contain the spread of COVID-19 .

Specifically, Gray emphasized that Excessive alcohol consumption is not appropriate in a workplace. In addition, it highlighted that some Downing Street staff wanted to raise concerns about behavior they witnessed at work, but sometimes they felt unable to do so.

He also insisted that what happened in many of these meetings and the way in which they were conducted was not in line with anti-COVID regulations, even taking into account the extraordinary pressures that officials and advisers were under.

In addition, the dossier included several photographs in which the prime minister could be seen participating in some events, smiling and raising a glass of wine as a sign of celebration.

Boris Johnson always defended that he was not lying

After the report was released, Johnson made sure that did not lie to Parliament when he said he was unaware that the law had been broken with the parties At a turbulent moment in his political career, the now former prime minister clung to office calling on the country to put the scandal behind him and claimed to be unaware that in his absence the Downing Street parties would have broken the rules.

He did assume, instead, to have participated in his birthday celebration on June 19, 2020, so he was fined by the police.