Boris Johnson has become the first UK prime minister to be sanctioned for lying to the parliament after ministers voted to uphold a report that found Mr Johnson lied about lockdown-flouting parties. Read more:
UK MPs have voted to endorse a report that found Boris Johnson deliberately lied about rule-breaking parties.Mr Johnson avoided potential suspension by resigning as an MP just days before the damning report was released.
"The contempt was all the more serious because it was committed by the prime minister, the most senior member of the government," it stated in a damning 106-page report."He misled the House on an issue of the greatest importance to the House and to the public, and did so repeatedly." Parliament's decision to back the conclusions of the report does not stop Mr Johnson from standing again to be a member of the House of Commons, but it's an embarrassing punishment for a politician who was still prime minister a year ago.
Senior politicians in the governing Conservative Party, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and many members of the cabinet, skipped the debate and avoided voting on Monday to avoid increasing tensions with party members who remain loyal to the former prime minister. "This is a dreadful day for MPs and for democracy," Mr Johnson said in an angry 1,700-word statement.
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