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They leave. borisjohnson has admitted his statements about the parties misled parliament but denied doing so intentionally. he described the report as rubbish and lies. lets go straight westminster and this report cannot be more damning, could it? it this report cannot be more damning, could it? , . , ., could it? it is a blunt damning re ort could it? it is a blunt damning report and _ could it? it is a blunt damning report and many _ could it? it is a blunt damning report and many expected - c...

Resignation from parliament. then at the end, conclusions and recommendations. you can see on page 67... if we can skip right the way through to that. bear with us. as i say, this is the first any of us are seeing of this report. letsjust find the crucial pages. again, just bear with us, we are going to scroll back. page 67 here. a lot of detail, a lot of dense text. lets just scroll through to what will hopefully be a key area. point 228, which gives you an idea of the length of the report, con...

Suspension long enough to engage the provisions of the recall of mps act. what the committee means there is that the suspension would be more than ten days, which would trickle —— trigger a recall, which meant that borisjohnsons and such rents could force a by—election, which could force a by—election, which could have seen him, had he not resigned, leave the house of commons. in light of his father contempt, we put on record that if he had not resigned his seat, we would have recommende...

Moment think that is what is going to happen. i suspect we will get possibly some extensions, a tiny number of voting again but i think the vast majority of parliament who want to reinforce the issue of truth and politics and support the conclusions of the privileges committee. i conclusions of the privileges committee-— conclusions of the privileges committee. ., ., , ., committee. i want to put to you, the arc ument committee. i want to put to you, the argument of — committee. i want to pu...

Hes not fit for public office, and hes disgraced himself. and continues to act like a pound shop trump in the way _ in which he tries to discredit - anybody who criticises his actions. hes built his entire career as a politician on being very shady with the truth, and what the committee has found is that he purposely lied to parliament as prime minister. today, the final page turns on the former prime minister, covid rule—breaking and the truth. the big question is whether the book is now clos...

Johnsons comments. perhaps some of the detail about his previous statements to the house of commons and evidence to the inquiry. here his incorrect assertion, the committee says, that the committees powers are new and its procedure is unfair is a continuation of a pattern of statements, they say, which are old expressions of opinion withoutjustification. they go on to say... and we are reading this for the first time, remember, bear with us. at the time we wrote to mr johnson, we had come to kno...

Which has produced the report, looking into his conduct, trying to decide whether he deliberately misled the house of commons, he is also guilty of breaching confidence, impugning the committee and undermining the democratic process of the house and being complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the committee. very serious conclusions, very serious findings from the committee, which are the basis for the serious sanction it has recommended. but a little bit of insight and...

Media. juan, lets bring you in on that note. because weve heard all kinds of reaction to this document. to the charges that are in it. yet this is the very beginning of the american legal process. this is what he is accused of. we have not heard from his team yet. hes still assembling his team. what would you say in terms of the caution that is required in waiting until all sides are heard? because ever since donald trump came on the scene, theres been a ton of jumping to conclusions. >> i think...

January 6th, we have yet to hear from jack smith, just so everyone is aware, of that report or of the conclusions of that investigation. were still waiting, which is again, another legal carol that is facing donald trump at this point in time. we dont yet have that information, but just to unpack one term, youve been talking about this, karen and i about the term arrest, when were talking about arrest, its not as if were going to see a perp walk of donald trump, handcuffed behind his back, comin...

Three by—elections will now be held at a time when rishi sunak�*s conservative party is languishing in the opinion polls. the leader of the labour party calls the situation a farce and has called for a general election. our political correspondent, damian grammaticas, has the latest. is this the end of a political career? a witch hunt, borisjohnson says, forced him out. a kangaroo court he has called parliaments investigation. in truth, he saw its conclusions before we did, and decided to go...