Elevenses: Lies, Damned Lies, and Boris
Johnson has been found to be a proven liar by a Committee and his peers - but he is yet to be held accountable for the greatest fib he ever told.
Johnson has been found to be a proven liar by a Committee and his peers - but he is yet to be held accountable for the greatest fib he ever told.
"You went to work for a man you knew was a consistent liar, and when you say Brexit was divisive it was worse than that, it was destructive"
Harriet Harman, the chair of the Privileges Committee, warned that misleading the House is a “matter of great importance”.
The PM told parliament that there was no party in Downing Street on 13th November - but pictures leaked by ITV appear to prove there was.
After being called out for false claims about wages, it also appears he got his MoJ and police recruitment numbers wrong.
"You’ve said something that isn’t true, you’ve said something that isn’t true about wages," Andrew Marr said.
"His own family knows he's a liar," he said, adding that voters need to be targeted with messages on stuff they really care about.
It comes as a petition to 'make lying in parliament history' closes in on the 150,000 signature mark.
"There's something broken in a system that punishes someone for calling out lies and protects someone else for repeatedly lying," Tommy Corbyn said.
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