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The guidance doesn't say that. i accept that not everybody is perfectly socially distanced in that picture. but that did not mean to me, when i stood up in the house of commons and said that the guidance was followed completely, i was not thinking of that event and thinking that somehow that contravened the guidance. absolutely not. we were... we were making a huge effort to follow the guidance. what about the get togethers in the downing street garden? would you have advised anyone else in the country, if they'd asked you at one of the press conferences at that time to have a large social gat...

In the house of commons is the truth. and without that trust, our entire parliamentary democracy is undermined. the prime minister. and look at this — borisjohnson having to look himself in the eye and watch what he had previously said. the guidance was followed and the rules were followed at all times. i am here to say to you, hand on heart, that i did not lie to the house. when those statements were made, they were made in good faith and on the basis of what i honestly knew and believed at the time. and so to his interrogation, the mps testing his arguments. one of his conservative colleag...

At the time." finally... "there is no evidence at all that supports an allegation that i intentionally or recklessly misled the house". many of his allies agree. our political editor chris mason spoke to one earlier. does this get him off the hook? well, it shows categorically that not a single shred of evidence that boris knowingly misled parliament. what's more, where it's shown inadvertently there had been some inaccuracies, he corrected the record. and all this comes before a big day tomorrow — where that committee of mps will question borisjohnson in a televised session. let's talk toje...

If parliament was at all misled, he was simply acting on the advice of his officials, he was not responsible for suggesting, for example, that rules had been followed when in fact they had been breached and, in addition to that, he didn't knowingly mislead parliament. what his legal team has concentrated is a lot of precedent from various cases over the years of parliament, and what they are effectively saying is it is not enough simply to mislead parliament, that shouldn't lead to a punishment in itself, you have to knowingly mislead parliament, which is something which is difficult to prove,...

Whitmer fleetingly displayed a reaction one almost never sees from Leftist politicians, even when confronted with the bitter fruit of their actions: regret.