Bunter is a proven liar. The majority of the government and by lack of action the majority of the 1922 Committee have sleaze running through them like a stick of Blackpool rock. It is clear to anyone with an IQ higher than the number of their teeth that what has been delivered is an attempted cover-up and it must be exposed and appropriate action taken using every means available. Bunter must go.
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Text messages relating to an alleged lockdown party held by Carrie Johnson that was not examined by the Sue Gray inquiry are expected to be called in by MPs investigating Boris Johnson, Sky News understands.
Both the Johnsons could also be summoned to give evidence - in writing or in person - to the parliamentary privileges committee as part of its investigation into whether the prime minister knowingly misled the Commons by repeatedly denying any parties had taken place.
The texts have been flagged up to Cabinet Secretary Simon Case and allegedly show a Downing Street aide told Mrs Johnson her husband was on the way up to the flat on 19 June 2020, with her replying she was already there with some male friends.
Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, anything more is habitual … 
If this does happen in October, the party gate inquiry will be ignored.
People are fed up with this now, we have much bigger things to worry about.
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And ALL of them caused by or made much worse by Johnson.
I wouldn’t go that far but he needs to stop his socialist green nonsense.
The cross-party Privileges Committee, made up of seven MPs, issued a call for evidence after meeting on Wednesday. It said it would be seeking “witness information and evidence” and that hearings would begin in the autumn. The committee says it is willing to take evidence from people anonymously provided their identity can be verified. It says information may include evidence of “Mr Johnson’s knowledge of the activities in 10 Downing Street and the Cabinet Office under Covid regulations, from the occurrence of those events until now” and “any briefing given to, or inquiries made by, Mr Johnson relating to those events.”
The former appeal court judge, Sir Ernest Ryder, has been appointed as an adviser to the committee. He conducted a review into the fairness and justice of the House of Commons standards system in December 2021.
When stories of lockdown parties first emerged, Mr Johnson told MPs rules had not been broken in Downing Street - but opposition politicians have since accused the prime minister of lying.
After hearing evidence, the Privileges Committee will produce a report stating whether or not it believes Mr Johnson did deliberately mislead Parliament. If it finds he did, it can recommend a sanction which could include a suspension or expulsion from Parliament entirely. It could also recommend he apologises to the House. MPs will then get to decide whether or not to approve the report and implement the recommended sanctions.
The Privileges Committee is made up of seven MPs - two Labour MPs, one SNP and four Conservatives. However, the committee chair - Labour’s Chris Bryant - recused himself from the investigation as he had already commented publicly on the matter. The committee voted unanimously to replace Mr Bryant with former deputy Labour leader Ms Harman.
Presumably, as with the other reports so far, BJ will be found guilty of a minor misdemeanour and have his wrist slapped, which, of course, won’t bother the serial prevaricator at all.
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Harriet Harman, known as Harriet Harperson, is so PC and Woke it will be a complete joke.
Well done Boris, another bullet dodged.
Boris Johnson ordered to hand over vast cache of evidence to lies probe - full list
The Privileges Committee is investigating whether Boris Johnson lied to Parliament about Partygate - and will continue its probe into the Autumn despite the PM stepping down on September 5The Privileges Committee demanded diaries for the eight days he attended Covid lockdown-busting gatherings in Downing Street - which led to more than 100 fines from police.
MPs also ordered photos, internal notes, the PM’s briefing packs, e-mails, resignation statements and door logs - and warned the list could be expanded further at a later date.
Powerful chair Harriet Harman, the Labour veteran, set an August 15 deadline for No10 to serve up the documents - before Boris Johnson hands his resignation to the Queen on September 6.
And she ordered the nation’s top civil servant to let her committee visit 10 Downing Street, to “inspect” where the parties happened.
Hearings with witnesses - who could include the PM and wife Carrie - are due to begin in September and insiders believe the committee will not report back until October or November at the earliest.
Boris Johnson could avoid any sanction from the committee if he chose to quit as an MP.
The Privileges Committee can find MPs in contempt of Parliament for “deliberately misleading” the Commons - such as War Secretary John Profumo who denied an affair in 1963 - and recommend they are suspended.
Investigations are rare. The last MP to face any sanction was Tory Justin Tomlinson in 2016, and the last investigated for misleading MPs was Labour ’s Stephen Byers in 2006. He gave an inaccurate answer “inadvertently” so there was no contempt.
Previous chairman Chris Bryant, who recused himself, has said the MPs will only have to prove Boris Johnson “knowingly” misled Parliament, not that he deliberately did so.
I think BJ will quit as an MP in order to avoid sanction and to start making money for a new house - unless he wants to evict his tenants … 
Boris Johnson could face a by-election to remain as an MP if he is found to have misled Parliament over parties in Downing Street during lockdown.
The outgoing prime minister is facing a Parliamentary inquiry over what he told MPs about the events.
If it rules against him and he is suspended from the Commons for 10 days he could face a recall petition, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said.
Mr Johnson would be able to stand in any resulting by-election.
The ignominy … 
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Eviction may be in the pipeline:
Nadine Dorries accuses MPs investigating Partygate of ‘witch hunt’
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, one of Mr Johnson’s staunchest supporters, on Sunday tweeted: “If this witch hunt continues, it will be the most egregious abuse of power witnessed in Westminster. It will cast serious doubt not only on the reputation of individual MPs sitting on the committee, but on the processes of Parliament and democracy itself”.
Lord Goldsmith, who was given a life peerage and a ministerial job by Mr Johnson in the wake of voters dumping him as the MP for Richmond Park in 2019, tweeted: “The Partygate probe is clearly rigged. It is a jury comprised of highly partisan, vengeful & vindictive MPs, nearly all of whom are already on the record viciously attacking the person they are judging. It is an obscene abuse of power.”
In response to Ms Dorries’s comment, Labour MP Chris Bryant said: “Let’s talk about abuse of power such as illegally suspending parliament or doling out peerages to donors or tearing up the rules to protect Owen Paterson. The real abuse of power would be suspending an inquiry to protect your mate”.
The probe is being led by a cross-party committee with a Tory majority that chose veteran Labour MP Harriet Harman to lead it.
A spokesman for the Privileges Committee said: “There has been no change to the rules or to terms of reference. The initial report published by the committee is about process. The background paper on contempt was prepared by a senior clerk of the House of Commons. All clerks are strictly politically impartial. The report also publishes the advice from distinguished former Court of Appeal judge Sir Ernest Ryder. The committee has published this material as part of its commitment to transparency”.
Dorries is showing signs of paranoia. She seems to see enemies all around her and her beloved PM - first a treacherous coup and now a witch-hunt … 
Oh, it’s a crime now is it for a house to go up in value with time?
I never said, or implied, that.
I appreciate that but it is what I inferred from the article you posted.
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Then you should have quoted the link only and not me.
The staff have been contacted by a committee investigating what the PM knew, and one has agreed to give evidence - while another two are considering following suit, reports The Telegraph.
It is the clearest indication of what Harriet Harman, the Labour chairman of the Privileges Committee, has gathered as part of her investigation.
One of those being asked to give evidence said: “On the facts, he was definitely at lockdown-breaking events and he knew they were happening and therefore what he said to the House was knowingly inaccurate.”
Last month, Boris Johnson was ordered to hand a vast cache of evidence to the probe into whether he lied to Parliament over Partygate.
Hearings with witnesses - who could include the PM and wife Carrie - are due to begin in September and insiders believe the committee will not report back until October or November at the earliest.
The government’s chief whip has warned Conservative MPs not to comment on a probe into whether Boris Johnson misled MPs over Partygate.
A spokesperson for the committee said it had not “prejudged” any aspect of its inquiry, and the parliamentary officials advising it were politically impartial.
The cross-party committee has a Tory majority, but has found itself under fire from Conservative allies of the prime minister in recent days.
On Sunday, Johnson loyalist and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said the “Machiavellian” inquiry was “the means to a by-election” and called on Tory MPs to “have no part in it”. “If this witch hunt continues, it will be the most egregious abuse of power witnessed in Westminster,” she added.
Environment Minister Lord Goldsmith, whom Mr Johnson made a peer in December 2019, said the inquiry was “clearly rigged” and an “obscene abuse of power”.
Backbench Tory MP Michael Fabricant also accused the committee of wanting to “get rid of Boris Johnson” and “changing the rules”.
But in an email to Tory MPs on Thursday, Chief Whip Chris Heaton-Harris said he would like to “remind” them that the committee was set up by a vote in the Commons, which also has to sign off any sanction recommended by the committee.
“May I urge caution against any further comments in the media about the Privileges Committee and especially its Clerk and Members,” wrote Mr Heaton-Harris, who is in charge of party discipline. Invariably these comments will be misinterpreted by those who do not wish to help us."
On Tuesday, one of the Tory MPs on the committee, Sir Bernard Jenkin, said the committee had a “duty” to carry out the inquiry and accused Ms Dorries of waging a “terrorist campaign to try and discredit the committee”.
Dorries has become a particularly NPOW, emulating her beloved PM in his use of lies and insinuation to hide the truth.
Johnson is consulting lawyers over the best way to approach the privileges committee inquiry, according to The Times.
Liz Truss has been warned against attempting to install an MP sympathetic to Boris Johnson on the inquiry examining whether he lied to parliament, amid concerns that the government is already trying to rein in the investigation.
It is understood that Truss, who is expected to be confirmed as the new prime minister on Monday , will have the power to put a new Tory MP on the privileges committee, which is investigating whether Johnson misled MPs over Downing Street lockdown parties.
She is being warned that any attempt to appoint an MP with connections to Johnson will be opposed by parliament and could lead to a repeat of the Owen Paterson sleaze scandal. Johnson’s bid to change Commons rules to protect Paterson from punishment over lobbying is seen by many MPs as marking the start of his demise.
The new prime minister and their chief whip will have the power to recommend a new Conservative member of the committee after Laura Farris, the MP for Newbury, resigned from it in the summer. Her resignation will be formally accepted when MPs return to the Commons this week.
It leaves Truss with a difficult decision about whether or not to replace Farris. Johnson and his allies have been highly critical of the inquiry. Truss has also emerged as the clear favourite for the leadership after winning their support. While she and her new chief whip can nominate an MP, she also has the option of leaving the post unfilled.
What will Dim do … 
Lord Pannick, a lawyer hired by the government to examine the committee’s approach, called the investigation “fundamentally flawed”. In his legal advice, Lord Pannick warned that “the threat of contempt proceedings for unintentional mistakes would have a seriously chilling effect” on MPs.
The independent crossbench peer said the committee’s approach is inconsistent with past cases where intent was taken into account and the process would be deemed “unlawful” if it was tested in a court. He criticised the committee for taking evidence anonymously and said Mr Johnson should be told the details of the case against him.
The committee said Lord Pannick’s opinion was “founded on a systemic misunderstanding of the parliamentary process and misplaced analogies with the criminal law”. It rejected Lord Pannick’s call for Mr Johnson to be represented by a lawyer who would speak on his behalf and cross-examine witnesses. In a statement the committee, said it “does not have discretion to allow counsel to speak in a hearing and conduct cross-examination, and it would require a decision of the House to permit this”.
Back to the drawing-board, BJ … 