The deputies of the British House of Commons approved this Monday with a majority of 354 votes in favor to only seven against the report that concluded that the former prime minister Boris Johnson “deliberately misled” Parliament on the parties at the headquarters of the Government in the midst of a pandemic in the case known as partygate.
The vote culminated almost six hours of parliamentary debate in which almost all the interventions were for harshly criticize the former Conservative leaderboth by his co-religionists and by members of the opposition.
Labor forced the vote precisely to portray Johnson’s loneliness by chanting “No!” when the speaker of the House of Commons (Lower) asked loudly if the report was approved, forcing an individual scrutiny.
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The first Minister, Rishi Sunak, did not attend Parliament to participate in the vote, although he left his companions tories choose the direction of your vote.
That same message was conveyed by the leader of the House of Commons, penny mordauntwho asked his companions “vote wisely”although she announced that she would support the text.
Presenting the motion before the Commons, and before voting on the report, Mordaunt recalled that the document of the Committee on Privileges considered that the former leader tory “deliberately misled Parliament and in doing so incurred grave contempt.”
He added that according to that writing, “Johnson broke trust, undermined the democratic process of this House and was complicit in a campaign of abuse and attempted to intimidate the committee.”
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The president of the Privileges Committee, the Labor party, also intervened Harriet Harmannwhich defended the investigation and concluded that Johnson “misled on numerous occasions” to the deputies.
“He knew that the rules were being violated. And cheating is not a technicality, but a matter of great importance. Ministers must be honest, otherwise we cannot do our job,” Harman defended.
According to the report in question, which the former prime minister called “garbage”, Johnson committed “repeated contempt” of the House by misleading lawmakers when he denied that social distancing rules established at the time to contain the spread of the coronavirus had been breached.
The committee recommended that Johnson was suspended for a period of 90 days.but acknowledged that the penalty -considered the most serious for a former prime minister- will not be applied after the politician presented his resignation as deputy more than a week ago.
