Knighthood by borisjohnson is his resignation honours list and he has mentioned that he feels the report by the cross party committee was swayed by political decisions. let s listen to what he had to say. it is quite clear that he misled parliament. what is not so clear, and i haven t read the evidence, is whether or not he knowingly misled parliament. that might sound like dancing on the head of a needle, but actually it is quite an important point, because normally the privileges committee would look at whether someone knowingly tried to mislead parliament. and he maintained, of course, that he was getting legal advice, so it was legal. i am getting legal advice, so it was legal. iam not getting legal advice, so it was legal. i am not going to argue that now. i have not read the evidence. what i am concerned about is that a number of people have criticised others who have impugned the nature of the privileges committee. and what i do want to say is that i was there when borisjohnson
Profoundly polarising. i think that is why he will struggle to make a comeback because despite that large chunk of the population that still thinks good old boris, he has sought to become that most difficult of things, which is an unpopular populist, the polling is now cup not complimentary about boris johnson, because a lot of those people are like in 25 years ago, think, you know what? it is not what i thought he was. i thought he was. looking at the findinus i thought he was. looking at the findings of i thought he was. looking at the findings of the i thought he was. looking at the findings of the committee, - i thought he was. looking at the findings of the committee, one | i thought he was. looking at the l findings of the committee, one of the things they found was that he was complicit in a campaign of abuse against the mps investigating him. i mean, just for context, how unusual is a situation like this, where you have a former prime minister railing against a committe
Thing. when he was at eton his schoolmaster said he regards it as churlish of us not to realise that he is a special person who doesn t have to pay the same laws and conventions of everyone else in the school. and it s churlish that we don t recognise his genius. well, i think he feels it is churlish of the standards committee, the privileges committee, not to recognise that they had a great figure in front of him. he wrote a book about winston churchill that seemed to be a book which showed how winston churchill had modelled his life on that of borisjohnson. winston churchill had been a journalist, boris a journalist and so on. he was born with the gift of tongues. and an
i have the utmost respect for the integrity of the committee and its members. they contrast that with his language in the last few days, talking about kangaroo courts and witch hunts , and they said that borisjohnson has used precisely those abusive terms and they have no doubt he was insincere in his attempts to distance himself from the campaign of abuse and intimidation that members of this committee have found. and that, they say, is a further significant contempt. that s what it s that 90 day suspension that they ve recommended together with borisjohnson losing his parliamentary pass for good. those punishments will be debated and voted on by mps on monday. now we ll here from conservative mp michael fabricant, a close supporter of borisjohnson s over the years. what i am concerned about is that a number of people have criticised others who have impugned the nature of the privileges committee. and what i do want to say was that i was there when borisjohnson gave
Contrast there is a proportion of conservative mps, supporters and members who believe that boris johnson is not the messiah, he is a very naughty boy. and that division is hugely problematic for the party because the spectre, even if it s not in a party political sense but in a broad political sense, the spectre of borisjohnson hanging around attempting to preserve the myth of his leadership and legacy could be hugely damaging notjust to rishi sunak but the conservatives at the next general election and potentially for elections to comp. let me turn back to you, messiah, greased piglet, naughty boy and these are some of the terms we ve heard so far it only our 50 minutes into the programme. what do you think the conservative party will do when it comes to this boat that the privileges committee of course have recommended? if it privileges committee of course have recommended? privileges committee of course have recommended? if it was a functioning conservative recommended? if it wa