The Report Concludes That Mr. Johnson Had Committed Multiple Contempt of Parliament

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Duncan Robinson: The public got to see what Mr. Johnson had seen, and it's not pretty. He says the former Prime Minister knew there were parties going on in Downing Street during lockdown. And he lied about them, then attacked the committee that sent him a draft report; tried to undermine its democratic process - all rather damning for his tenure as PM. But how has Boris Johnson responded so far? "It is a lie," he said this morning after the report came out.

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