The report foreclosed – at least for the moment – any plausible return to power for the former prime minister. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The vote revealed a Conservative Party still somewhat divided by his polarising leadership. But rather than take a clear position on the findings, by a powerful parliamentary committee, a large proportion of Conservative lawmakers abstained and just seven members of Parliament rejected the report.
In a debate marked by sorrow, anger and occasional flashes of humor, lawmakers from both sides stood up to condemn him for his duplicity and to call for Parliament to endorse the report, as a way of rebuilding trust in British public life. A handful of Tories spoke in defence of Mr Johnson, a shrunken band of loyalists for a figure who once enjoyed firm command of the House of Commons.
Mr Johnson resigned his parliamentary seat on June 9 after seeing an early draft of the findings of the year-long investigation. He angrily dismissed the committee as a “kangaroo court,” even though a majority of its members was drawn from his own party. “This isn’t just the reasonable person test, it’s the ‘Who on earth do you think you are kidding?’ test,” Mr Debbonaire said. “And he fails both.”Mr Johnson’s defenders questioned how the committee could know whether his misleading statements were deliberate and said its proposed punishments were overly harsh.
He had made little secret of his ambitions to win back his old job as prime minister but that would be impossible without a parliamentary seat. Parliament’s endorsement of the report does not preclude him from running again, but most analysts think he is unlikely to try to do so in the next general election, which is expected in the second half of next year.
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