Boris stands down as MP with immediate effect part 3

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Tomorrow is the Commons vote on the Privileges Committee's findings that Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over Downing Street parties during lockdown

The vote is a free vote rather than being whipped either way. Tories have been told that the vote will be a one-line whip, meaning they will not be obliged to participate.

Boris Johnson is believed to have advised his backers to not vote against it.

Michael Gove confirmed on live tv that he will abstain

Tobias Elwood has u-turned on abstaining after hearing stories from voters

Rishi Sunak, who knows

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The report had been expected to be nodded through after Mr Johnson urged allies not to oppose it, arguing that the sanctions have no practical effect and it is time to move on.

But Labour MPs used a parliamentary tactic to force a vote on the report that recommended Mr Johnson faced a theoretical 90-day suspension and is blocked from holding a parliamentary pass.

The party wanted to force Tory MPs to put on the record whether they backed the committee’s findings into Mr Johnson. MPs approved the Privileges Committee report by 354 votes to 7, majority 347.

Conservative MP Lia Nici, who was an aide to Mr Johnson, said the report was “not impartial”.
She added: “I have to speak in the House today because I cannot see where the evidence is where Boris Johnson misled Parliament knowingly, intentionally or recklessly…. The reality is – is that Boris Johnson did not knowingly or intentionally mislead this House.”
She went on: “Number 10 is full of police officers, full of security people. Why did nobody report this to the Prime Minister so that he was aware of it.”
“Sadly this is all becoming part of a kind of political opportunism for those people who don’t like Boris Johnson’s approach,” she added.

So it's the police's fault, the security officers fault - why can't he take responsibility and why didn't he ask someone who would have known when he was going to be asked about it at PMQs?

They don’t need to any more, do they?

The most satisfying part of all this is reading the complaining from Johnson's supporters. It's almost as good as watching the death of King Joffrey.

(Heads over to Youtube)

You want to correct the Government guidance?

Go on, take a look at it and see how the Government was trying to get offices to mitigate contact.

I do expect that if someone is going to go on about not seeing evidence that rules weren't being followed - they should at least take the opportunity to read the rules and guidance at the time.

Unless you don't want to?

Clarke-Smith tweeted that he was watching the cricket instead. Strange, I thought we paid him to work.

Given that Starmer appeared to command a majority in the House of Commons yesterday, can they just make him Prime Minister now please.

Skipping Parliament to watch cricket. That's the problem with people like him: pound-shop Winston Churchills.

Careful, the bottom of that barrel is wearing pretty thin.

Boris Johnson is a liar, btw.

If I bury my head in the sand and shot, "la, la, la" loud enough I wont see any evidence.

Doesn't change the fact that Johnson is a liar though.

So if she gets in at the next election and ends up in a minority opposition, is she just going to boycott every Parliamentary vote?

I hope her constituents are going to take note of the fact that she apparently has no intention of doing her job.

'Doesn't change the fact that Johnson is a liar though'

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Says you and the parrots in the HOC (it's LI -AHH!!! Btw).

The debate and the transcript from Hansard

Privilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris Johnson - Hansard - UK Parliament

Why did nobody report this to the Prime Minister so that he was aware of it.”

Perhaps they thought they didn’t need to because they knew he already knew about them and had no issue. This explanation seems to have bypassed Nici.

There are 16 gatherings his own lawyers handed to the police from his notebooks because they thought they broke the laws in place at the time. Not to mention the ABBA party in his flat which nobody seems to want to investigate too closely.

Lis Nici at 5.35 pm

"No, I will not give way at the moment. Those people advised the then Prime Minister again and again that no rules were broken and that guidance was followed at all times. Everybody in this place knows that no Minister stands at the Dispatch Box and knowingly misleads. They have to take counsel from people who advise them, many of whom are giving legal advice that they know to be the truth, but the public do not necessarily know that that is the case. If you are a Prime Minister and you are advised in that way again and again, no matter how you question that advice, you have to stand at the Dispatch Box and give those statements, because that is what you have been legally advised to do. People may not like that, but that is the truth, and that is why I am standing here and saying this."

I don't think he took LEGAL advice, did he?
Just advice from people who had been at the gatherings

Dominic Grieve on CNN

“They began to grapple with the problem that really they had a monster on their hands because in constitutional terms that is what this country had.”

twitter.com/LizWebsterSBF/status/1671037339227811840?s=20

Not to mention the ABBA party in his flat which nobody seems to want to investigate too closely.

Can't blame them, it was probably horrifying on a number of levels.

You love something that demonstrates fundamental ignorance of basic democratic principles? Thanks for admitting to it, it confirms a lot about you.

'There are 16 gatherings his own lawyers handed to the police from his notebooks'

If i was knowingly going to be a LI -AHHH and mislead Parliament I wouldn't keep a record in notebooks, I wouldn't have the official photographer take official snaps. I'd do it all on the QT. That's me though.

Says 118 of his own colleagues.

Yeah but you are probably used to facing consequences for your actions. Boris is both stupid and arrogant.

Well that is a positive. You clearly aren't quite as arrogant as Johnson.

Unless you were an idiot?

Or arrogant?

Just goes to show how stupid, arrogant and unsuited to high office he is.

I also wouldn't film at a Christmas party and make comments about hoping it's not being streamed because you knew it was against advice.

But that happened.

Because they are idiots or arrogant

Janiie has run out of road, just like Johnson has. Boris Johnson is a liar and yesterday's man. He is finished politically.