![]() Now with Boris Johnson we have someone at the top who lies with impunity. This is true of the overwhelming majority in this country. “The film has resonated with millions of people,” Stefanovic said. The range is impressive: CO2 emissions relative poverty nurses’ bursaries and the government’s “record” NHS investment, actually less than funding under Labour. It lays out the occasions when Johnson has made false statements on the record. The successful vaccine rollout and the ending of lockdown have undoubtedly helped.Īt the same time a video by Peter Stefanovic has now clocked up 13.5m views online. The latest polls put the Tories 11 points ahead of Labour and on course for victory in next week’s English councils elections, probably a big one. Is any of this cutting through to the voters? Yes and no. Seemingly, Erskine May, the sideburned baron who established parliamentary procedure, did not envisage a PM like Johnson. Johnson has repeatedly ignored this obligation, making a litany of inaccurate claims which he subsequently fails to fix. Under the ministerial code, an MP who makes a false statement to the Commons is supposed to correct the record. The MPs want to be able to call him out – and the charge sheet against him is long. “We need new rules for this Trumpian era of British politics,” Green MP Caroline Lucas told the Radio 4 Today programme. Their message: the parliamentary protocols drawn up in Victorian times no longer work. On Tuesday an exasperated cross-party group of MPs went to see Hoyle. Slowly but surely, MPs – and the BBC – seem to be shedding their reluctance to openly call Johnson a liar, albeit by implication. The refurbishment story combines money and his private life – two subjects about which he is notoriously touchy.Īnd while Downing Street has said the “bodies” quote is untrue, to its frustration, the BBC, ITV and Daily Mail have reported it anyway, citing sources who were allegedly in the room at the time. These questions have clearly rattled Johnson. The Electoral Commission is investigating. But he refuses to clarify whether the Conservative party initially stumped up the cash, via the millionaire donor and Tory peer Lord Brownlow. ![]() There is Johnson’s reported quote that he would rather “let the bodies pile high in their thousands” than order another lockdown.Īnd there is Wallpapergate: the ongoing saga of who paid for £58,000 in lavish renovations to Johnson’s No 11 flat. But the accusation that he is a serial liar has acquired a dark and giddy momentum, after a week in which multiple sleaze allegations have engulfed Westminster. The issue of Johnson’s probity is not new.
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