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Mon 31 Jan 2022 sixteen.37 GMTFirst posted on Mon 31 Jan 2022 09.42 GMT
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2m agoMet police say they've acquired greater than 300 partygate pix from Gray inquiry
15m agoStarmer's speech saying Johnson is unfit for workplace
28m agoJohnson refuses to decide to publishing Sue Gray's findings in full after police inquiry over
40m agoSNP leader Ian Blackford ordered to leave Commons for calling Johnson liar
48m agoTheresa May says PM both had no longer study Covid rules, or did now not understand them, or idea he become exempt
52m agoStarmer says Johnson is 'man without disgrace' and Tory MPs need to dispose of him
1h agoJohnson says he will create Office of the Prime Minister at No 10
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16:37
Met police say they have received extra than 300 partygate images from Gray inquiry
The police have acquired more than 300 pictures of the partygate occasions, the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg says.
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sixteen:34
Clive Efford (Lab) says the PM instructed MPs ultimate yr he have been assured there had been no events. That led to him inadvertently misleading the house. Have they been disciplined?
Johnson says they want to await the final results of the police investigation. He says Efford may also or won't be proper.
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6m ago
sixteen:32
Aaron Bell (Con) says when his grandmother died all through the pandemic best 10 people have been allowed on the funeral. After it became over he could not even prevent for a cup of tea earlier than a 3 hour force home. Does the PM think he became a fool?
No, says Johnson.
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Richard Fuller (Con) asks if the PM will receive the suggestions inside the record. Johnson says he'll.
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15m ago
16:23
Starmer's speech pronouncing Johnson is undeserving for workplace
Keir Starmer’s speech a couple of minutes in the past changed into the most withering and damning he has ever introduced approximately Boris Johnson, within the Commons or somewhere else. This is what he said:
The high minister repeatedly confident the House that the steerage became followed and the policies have been observed. But we now realize that 12 cases have breached the brink for crook investigation, which I remind the House means that there's evidence of great and flagrant breaches of lockdown, along with the celebration on May 20 2020, which we recognize the top minister attended, and the birthday celebration on November thirteen 2020 inside the top minister’s flat.
There may be no doubt that the prime minister himself is now concern to crook research. The top minister should preserve his promise to publish Sue Gray’s file in full while it is to be had, however it's far already clear what the document disclosed is the most damning end viable.
By automatically breaking the policies he set, the high minister took us desirous about fools, he held people’s sacrifice in contempt, he confirmed himself undeserving for office.
His desperate denials due to the fact that he was uncovered have best made subjects worse. Rather than come smooth, every step of the way he’s insulted the general public’s intelligence.
And now he’s ultimately fallen again on his traditional excuse: it’s everybody’s fault however his. They cross, he stays. Even now he's hiding in the back of a police research into criminality in his domestic and his workplace.
He gleefully treats what ought to be a mark of shame as a welcome shield. But high minister, the British public aren’t fools, they never believed a word of it, they assume the top minister need to do the decent factor and surrender.
Of route he gained’t because he is a person with out shame and simply as he has achieved at some point of his lifestyles, he’s damaged each person and the whole thing round him along the manner.
His colleagues have spent weeks protecting the indefensible, touring the TV studios parroting his absurd denials, degrading themselves and their offices, fraying the bond of accept as true with between the government and the public, eroding our democracy and the rule of thumb of regulation.
[Margaret Thatcher said] ‘the primary obligation of government is to uphold the law. If it tries to bob and weave and duck round that obligation while it is inconvenient, then so will the governed.’
To govern this united states of america is an honour, no longer a birthright. It’s an act of carrier to the British humans, not the keys to a court docket to parade in your pals.
It requires honesty, integrity and ethical authority. I can’t let you know how in many instances human beings have said to me that this prime minister’s lack of integrity is by hook or by crook ‘priced in’, that his behaviour and man or woman don’t rely. I have in no way familiar that and I by no means will be given that.
Whatever your politics, some thing celebration you vote for, honesty and decency count number. Our outstanding democracy relies upon on it, and cherishing and nurturing British democracy is what it way to be patriotic.
There are participants opposite who realize that, and that they know the top minister is incapable of it. The question they need to ask themselves is what are they going to do approximately it?
They can heap their reputations, the reputation in their celebration and the popularity of this usa on the bonfire that is his leadership, or they are able to spare the us of a from a top minister definitely unworthy of his duties. It is their obligation to achieve this.
They recognize better than everybody how incorrect he's for excessive workplace, a lot of them knew of their hearts that we might unavoidably come to this at some point, and that they recognize that as night follows day, persevering with his leadership will imply further misconduct, cowl-up and deceit.
It is only they who can stop this farce. The eyes of the us of a are upon them. They might be judged at the selections they take now.
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sixteen:18
Karl Turner (Lab) says the PM instructed MPs last year there has been no birthday celebration in the Downing Street flat on 13 November 2020. (See 3.21pm.) But now we realize the police are investigating one there, he says. Will the PM accurate the record?
Johnson says he stands via what he stated. He urges Turner to wait for the final results of the inquiry.
Updated at 4.31pm GMT
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16:14
Labour’s Jess Phillips asks Johnson if he was on the party inside the Downing Street flat on 13 November 2020 being investigated by way of the police. This is the one reportedly hosted with the aid of his wife to have fun the departure of Dominic Cummings.
Johnson says he cannot touch upon something being investigated by means of the police.
Updated at 4.15pm GMT
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sixteen:11
Johnson refuses to decide to publishing Sue Gray's findings in full after police inquiry over
Labour’s Diane Abbott asked Johnson if he could submit the Sue Gray report in full once the police inquiry is over, but Johnson sidestepped the question. Mark Harper, the former Tory leader whip, has simply attempted once more. Johnson stated he could take a selection on the time. He stated he would ought to consider if human beings gave evidence not expecting it to be published.
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Ed Davey, the Lib Dem chief, asks the PM if he is familiar with the hurt he has brought on to bereaved families who missed funerals, at the same time as No 10 became partying. Will he renounce?
Johnson says he does understand, and has apologised. But we must watch for the findings of the inquiry, and get on with what subjects to humans, he says.
Andrew Mitchell, the previous Tory international development secretary, says he has supported Johnson due to the fact he played a position in getting him at the Conservative celebration’s applicants list 30 years in the past. But now he can not aid him, he says.
SNP chief Ian Blackford ordered to leave Commons for calling Johnson liar
Blackford ends his response pronouncing Johnson has misled the house.
The Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, asks him to withdraw the fee. MPs are not allowed to accuse every other of lying.
Blackford repeats his price. He says Johnson has “lied and misled” the residence.
Hoyle asks him once more to withdraw. Blackford says the PM can also have inadvertently misled the house.
Johnson responds, saying Blackford is wrong.
Hoyle asks Blackford to clarify that he did withdraw the claim. This time Blackford is clear that he isn't always withdrawing. Hoyle says he ought to suspend Blackford, but Blackford is leaving besides.
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15:54
Ian Blackford, the SNP chief at Westminster, says Johnson has wilfully misled the house.
The Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, asks him to withraw. Blackford replaces the phrase wilfully with inadvertently.
He says the SNP will desk a motion calling for the Gray report to be posted in full.
He tells MPs that Johnson is now giggling in reaction.
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Theresa May says PM both had not examine Covid rules, or did no longer apprehend them, or concept he turned into exempt
Theresa May, the previous PM, says people had a proper to count on Boris Johnson to have understood the rules, and to observe them.
But the Gray document indicates No 10 changed into now not following the policies. Either Johnson had not study them, or he did no longer apprehend them, or he concept they did not follow to him. Which was it?
Johnson says that isn't always what the record says.
UPDATE: May said:
The Covid guidelines imposed giant regulations on the freedoms of members of the general public. They had a right to count on their high minister to have examine the regulations, to apprehend the that means of the policies and indeed those round him to have accomplished so too and to set an instance in following the ones policies.
What the Gray record does display is that No 10 Downing Street changed into not staring at the policies they'd imposed on participants of the public, so either my right honourable buddy had now not read the guidelines or didn’t recognize what they intended and others around him, or they didn’t think the rules applied to No 10. Which turned into it?
Updated at 4.10pm GMT
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15:forty eight
Johnson accuses Starmer of speakme “tissue of nonsense”.
He claims Starmer is making an attempt to prejudge the police inquiry.
And he criticises Starmer for not prosecuting Jimmy Savile while he was DPP.
Updated at three.51pm GMT
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15:47
Starmer says Johnson is 'guy with out disgrace' and Tory MPs ought to do away with him
Keir Starmer says the PM himself is now problem to crook research.
The document consists of the most damning end feasible, he says.
For the past two years the British humans have persisted a collective trauma.
Revelations about the PM’s behaviour have compelled humans to relive what came about. And a few human beings have felt guilt – guilt that because they did no longer forget about the guidelines like Johnson, they missed the threat to seeing a demise relative.
People must now not sense guilt, he says. By following the guidelines, they may have saved lives.
But Johnson’s conduct has made humans feel like fools, he says.
And he says Johnson has fallen lower back on his normal excuse, that it's far anyone’s fault however his.
Now he's defensive behind the police research, he says.
He says Johnson ought to surrender. But he won’t due to the fact “he's a man with out shame”.
Starmer says Johnson damages all the people round him. And he has damaged those ministers who've tried to shield him.
He says Margaret Thatcher stated the first duty of presidency become to obey the regulation. Governing this united states is an honour, now not a birthright.
I can’t tell you how normally humans have said to me that this high minister’s loss of integrity is somehow priced in this is behaviour and person don’t depend.
I actually have by no means prevalent that. And I by no means will be given that.
Whatever your politics, whichever celebration you vote for, honesty and decency subjects. Our awesome democracy relies upon on it, and cherishing and nurturing democracy is what it manner to be patriotic.
There are contributors contrary who know that they that and they know the top minister is incapable of it. The question they must now ask themselves is what are they going to do about it.
He says it's miles the duty of Tory MPs now to eliminate Johnson.
Updated at 3.51pm GMT
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15:39
Johnson is now speaking approximately government achievements. He says he may be relied on to deliver, and he lists guarantees on which he says he is delivering.
Johnson says he'll review the codes of conduct of civil servants and advisers.
And he's going to announce in due path measures to strengthen the manner No 10 works, he says.
He says: “I get it, and I will repair it.”
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