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In a scathing report, Boris Johnson’s colleagues in Parliament concluded Thursday that the former British prime minister repeatedly and deliberately lied to them about breaking COVID lockdown rules, and recommended the harshest possible punishment.
The committee’s report was never expected to be easy reading for the former prime minister. But it has proved even worse than that.
The damning 30,000-word paper details how Johnson repeatedly and deliberately misled Parliament about parties he hosted in Downing Street while the country was under COVID lockdown.
It says his denials “were so disingenuous that they were deliberate attempts to mislead the Committee” and talks about the “frequency with which he closed his mind to the truth.”
The report also says that there is no precedent for a prime minister to have deliberately misled the House of Commons.
“He misled the House on an issue of the greatest importance to the public, and did so repeatedly,” it reads.
