Privileges committee document intended to help ex-PM prepare for questioning contains wealth of new information
misled MPs when he repeatedly said no lockdown rules had been broken in Downing Street, a cross-party committee has said in a damning report that shows No 10 officials apparently struggling to reconcile this insistence with reality.from the Conservative-majority privileges committee includes a witness saying Johnson told a packed No 10 gathering in November 2020, when strict distancing rules were in force, that “this is probably the most unsocially distanced gathering in the UK right now”.
The report was intended primarily to guide the former prime minister about questions he would be asked at an evidence session later this month, as the committee seeks to determine whether he misled parliament. The report also says Johnson is believed to have seen regular Friday night lockdown drinks events in the No 10 press office, and that a visit by the committee proved there was a line of sight from his route back to his flat to the relevant area.
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