Britain's parliament delivers another blow to former prime minister Boris Johnson, endorsing a report that concluded that he deliberately lied over lockdown-breaking parties
Monday’s debate was the latest aftershock from the “partygate” scandal over gatherings in the prime minister’s Downing Street headquarters and other government buildings in 2020 and 2021.
London's Metropolitan Police force said that it was examining footage of the event, which the BBC reported was billed as a “jingle and mingle” Christmas party. It said Johnson “misled the House on an issue of the greatest importance to the House and to the public, and did so repeatedly.” It concluded that Johnson’s actions were such a flagrant violation of the rules that they warranted a 90-day suspension from Parliament, one of the longest ever imposed. A suspension of 10 days or more would have allowed his constituents to remove him from his seat in the House of Commons.
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