The report was delivered Thursday morning, nearly a week after Johnson stepped down as an MP. He did so after being told by a parliamentary committee that was investigating what he was keeping.

The committee has been looking into whether Johnson lied to lawmakers about the so-called partygate case, which involves parties among politicians, including at the Prime Minister’s residence, while Britain is under strict coronavirus restrictions.

Johnson has apologized for the party and was previously fined for his participation. At the same time, he repeatedly said that he was advised that the parties comply with the regulations.

Contributed to Johnson’s resignation

Partygate and several other cases greatly contributed to Johnson’s resignation as Prime Minister in July 2022. However, the current Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has also been thrust into the spotlight over the scandal – and was fined along with Johnson. Sunak was the finance minister at the party.

There were a total of twelve demonstrations which ended in police scrutiny. The case started to come to light in November 2021. Journalists from ITV and the Daily Mirror newspaper played a key role in the revelations.

In January 2022, a report from an internal government investigation was published condemning the behavior, and police issued a fine in April.

Insult

As well as misleading Parliament on several occasions on this issue, Johnson also showed further contempt in his conduct last week by making high-profile accusations against the committee and thereby undermining the democratic process, he said. report.

– We have concluded that Johnson has committed a serious insult by deliberately misleading Parliament. This is all the more serious because the act was committed by the Prime Minister. There is no precedent for a prime minister being deemed to have deliberately misled parliament, the committee wrote.

The report was even more critical of Johnson’s behavior than expected.

– He misled Parliament on matters of great importance to both Members of Parliament and the public, and he did this time and time again.

– Doubtful

The report’s findings would have led to a recommendation to lawmakers to suspend Johnson for 90 days – but that is no longer the case because Johnson resigned as MP last Friday. If parliament accepts this recommendation, it will open a by-election for Johnson’s west London constituency, an election the former prime minister is far from certain to win.

Commenting on the report, Johnson said Thursday the findings were fabricated and a hoax, and he again accused committee members of having a vendetta against him. The majority of committee members are from Johnson’s Conservative Party, although it is chaired by Labor veteran Harriet Harman.

Call it a witch hunt

– I believe that this event is relatively necessary for the workplace. We run the country through the pandemic. But don’t take it from me, take it from the police. Police investigated my role at all of these events and they found no instances of me doing anything illegal, Johnson said in a statement.

He had previously called the investigation a witch hunt, and he accused the committee of bias.

– The ruling means that no MP is safe from retaliation or eviction on the razor-thin basis of a small minority that would expel him from the House of Commons, Johnson added.

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