22nd March, the Commons Privileges Comittee investigation into Partygate

[DuncinToffee]

Live on BBC Parliament 2-6pm

Some background information

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62009458

https://news.sky.com/story/partygate-inquiry-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-investigation-into-boris-johnson-12805474

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/privileges-committee-investigation-boris-johnson

Hold up. Has he forgotten he was PM?

This is such a childish response.

"Everybody else was doing it, so I thought it was fine"
Fucking hell

Is he just going to keep saying over and over again, that he wasn't lying becasue he was told he wasn't lying, and he is completely incapable of knowing wither way for himself?

Is that guy on the left Lord Pannick?

That's the best summary ever 😁

What a load of shit!

He looks so small - so very very cheap

Covid almost killed him, FFS

@DuncinToffee Yes that is Pannick. Not giving a toss as he is getting paid either way.

Having read many many negative comments on the numerous supportive Daily Mail articles those morning I think he is speaking more for the public than the Committee.

Thanks for this thread, I'm not on Twitter anymore and was wanting to see what others were thinking.

Thanks Belindabelle, no wonder he is looking smug

Im not sure my blood pressure can handle this.

I think he's going to be roasted actually

Slagged off the media at the start but was happy to use them to scare the public into complying with lockdowns

How rude to interupt Harman before she had finished talking.

Harriet Harman is the epitome of professional.

I didn't know that being in room full of people doing things that didn't involve work was against the rules I made, until the police gave me an fpn which I accepted. Nobody told me. Rishi was with me, he didn't tell me either.

Arghhhh catching up, phone went.

He isn't getting it his own way now, is he? "I don't accept people weren't making an effort to distance"

He is completely rewriting the rules. And it was only "where possible".

Why were people fined then?

The confines of No.10 made it impossible

He rewrote the question! Well I assume Jenkin will ask it again

It was NOT necessary or essential to 'be there' to give reassurance when two people left. What bollocks.

Using the Met as defence THE MET is not the gotcha he thinks it is

The people involved in the illegal gatherings saved the country.

That's ok then!

social distancing was only to be enforced "where possible"

of course, leaving parties were not in any way possible to avoid

what is this electric force field nonsense!

I think he is getting the Committe's backs up. He is being patronising, not answering questions, he is sneery, interrupting, correcting those questioning

It was an "urgent meeting" apparently - my mistake, I didn't realise leaving parties came into that category