The Privileges Committee found that Boris Johnson misled parliament about the parties that ranked 10th during the lockdown. Photo: AFP
Parliamentary committee The committee investigating Boris Johnson has hired a clerk who posed as the former prime minister, including “ruffling” his hair during his interrogation rehearsal, Harriet Harman said.
< p>House of Commons Privileges Committee Chairman Calls Clerk's Job “Absolutely Fun” The impression was accurate as he got into the role and delivered the former Prime Minister's “superb” role play.
Veteran Leader MP admitted she didn't wanted to “wind up” and ensure the committee was well rehearsed before Johnson showed up to testify in March of this year.
“We felt the global attention to this issue, and we all felt that we should absolutely right,” she said.
“We had two whole days of rehearsals, and one of the clerks was Boris. Johnson, which was a lot of fun because he ruffled his hair and role-played.
“And usually clerks are very reserved, sober, rational, logical people, but he really got into it – he really did it. great.”
Harriet Harman says the committee felt it was giving the issue global attention during the partygate investigations. Photo: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire
Ms Harman also criticized those MPs who tried to discredit the committee and its findings, saying it was “very outrageous” when members of the House of Commons called it a “kangaroo court” .
Ms Harman, who has been a Labor MP since 1982, has been tasked with chairing a privileges committee to find out if Mr Johnson has misled parliament about party number 10 during the lockdown .
After reviewing thousands of pages of documents and hundreds of photographs, they discovered that he had lied, a finding that led to his resignation as an MP in June.
She said the process and results proved that there was “no impunity,” even for the prime minister.
“It's all about the evidence”
Speaking on Ian Dale's All Talk podcast, the 73-year-old said: “It's really all about the evidence.”
< p>“Misleading the House of Representatives is not a formality, we MPs must take at face value what ministers say.
“If we want to assess what we think about justifying a policy or something, we you need to tell the truth about what politics is and how it works.
“This is how we do it – the government is with us, and then we say what we think about it on behalf of our constituents.
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“If government ministers don't tell us the truth, the whole show is meaningless, and therefore it's not a formality, it's what our democracy is completely based on.”
“It was very upsetting to see MPs saying, ‘This is a kangaroo court’ because it was not a kangaroo court, but a committee of the House of Commons that they asked for.
“They set the conditions By the way, they agreed with all the members, and so when it looked like we were going to draw a conclusion that they didn't agree with, it was completely wrong of them to criticize it.”
Proud of the system.
Ms Harman said the four Tory committee members completed a “heroic service” to the House of Commons as they were “resilient” under pressure from within their party.
“They were under so much pressure from their party” . for their part,” she continued.
“I think they did a really outstanding job for the House of Commons and for our democracy, and I was really in awe of them.
“I don’t I think it was visible, but I think it was absolute heroism – when there is such a strong political pressure on you, to continue to do your job, because you feel that it is your duty, it's wonderful.”
Reflecting on the whole process, Ms. Harman said she was “proud” of the system.
“I think it's absolutely phenomenal,” she added.
“The idea that in fact, even whoever was the prime minister at the time could really be held accountable for the truthfulness of what he said, and force the cross-party committee to make a unanimous opinion, put it up for consideration and it was unanimously accepted – that this is something '.
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