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Boris Johnson: the verdict

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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Boris Johnson's Response to the Covid Inquiry

The committee is part of Parliament, and MPs hold MPs to account. It's not as if there's a some external committee or court that's taken Boris Johnson out of Parliament. So it's Parliament itself regulating its members. This reaction doesn't help him at all because all of the Covid process is still ongoing. If there are communications in there that he should have given to the privilege committee, they could be even more questions to ask about his conduct.

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