British MPs have decided to seize the Privileges Committee, which will in turn investigate this scandal surrounding the parties organized in Downing Street during the successive restrictions linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Posted on 4/21/2022 6:46 PM Updated on 4/21/2022 7:22 PM
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Boris Johnson is still not out of the woods. The British Prime Minister, already fined for breaching rules to prevent Covid-19 contagion during power circle parties in 2020 and 2021, is now the target of an inquiry led by MPs on Thursday, April 21, was initiated. It needs to be clarified whether he knowingly misled Parliament with his statements in this case.
By consensus, without even formally voting, they decided to go to the Privileges Committee. This opens a new front in this affair which, in the long run, is likely to force Boris Johnson to resign. The Ministers’ Law provides that a minister who has knowingly misled Parliament must resign. The parliamentary inquiry will not begin until the police investigation is complete and lead officer Sue Gray, who is in charge of an internal inquiry, has delivered her final report.
The motion, which moves the parliamentary process forward, “seeks to uphold the simple principle of honesty, integrity and telling the truth” in British political life, opposition Labor Party leader Keir Starmer said of the text’s origin. “We know that the prime minister himself broke the law,” he added.
This is yet another setback for the 57-year-old Conservative leader: far from turning the page of the crisis, despite his vast majority in the House of Representatives, he finds himself with a third investigation after others in ongoing administrative and police Commons, his initial ones Desire to oppose the procedure and then a maneuver to push it back, abandoned at the last minute. On many occasions before Parliament, the Prime Minister gave assurances that all the rules had been observed, a claim contradicted by the fine imposed on him.