Parliamentary committee finds the former prime minister deliberately misled Parliament over whether Covid lockdown rules were broken in Downing Street
It said in the report: “We came to the view that some of Mr Johnson’s denials and explanations were so disingenuous that they were by their very nature deliberate attempts to mislead the committee and the House, while others demonstrated deliberation because of the frequency with which he closed his mind to the truth.”
The report said: “His personal knowledge of breaches of the rules and guidance, combined with his repeated failures proactively to investigate and seek authoritative assurances as to compliance issues, amount to a deliberate closing of his mind or at least reckless behaviour. “Many aspects of Mr Johnson’s defence are not credible: taken together, they form sufficient basis for a conclusion that he intended to mislead.”
Failing to tell the House “about his own knowledge of the gatherings where the rules or guidance had been broken”;Insisting on waiting for Sue Gray’s report to be published before he could answer questions in the House, when he had “personal knowledge which he did not reveal”; Deputy Lib Dem leader Daisy Cooper said Mr Johnson should be stripped of the £115,000 annual allowance available to former prime ministers to run their office following the committee’s findings.
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