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After months of investigation, the report into whether or not Boris Johnson lied to parliament over partygate has lastly been revealed.Mr Johnson sensationally resigned as a Conservative MP on Friday with quick impact. He furiously claimed a "witch-hunt" was underneath strategy to "take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result". Mr Johnson's 1,000-word assertion attacked Rishi Sunak's authorities, and finally accused him of not being Conservative sufficient.The Commons privileges committee's 14-month investigation, and its findings run to round a 30,000-word report - across the similar size because the George Orwell novel Animal Farm.Here, Sky News rounds up the important thing findings.1. Boris Johnson intentionally misled the House over partyg...

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The privileges committee has reported – and its conclusions exceed even the extra damning expectations.The MPs discover Boris Johnson misled the House not simply as soon as, however a number of occasions: • On 1 December 2021 when stories first surfaced about lockdown-busting events and he stated all guidelines and steering had been adopted in No 10,• the next week on 8 December, when he repeated that assertion,• and in January,• and in May the next 12 months when he was questioned about leaving events for his workers.Politics newest: Johnson 'complicit in tried intimidation of committee', report saysThe crux of Mr Johnson's defence is that others suggested him that the gatherings - a few of which he didn't attend - had been inside the guidelines.But the MPs blow this out of ...

The largest faction of House GOP lawmakers is pushing Speaker Kevin McCarthy to make use of the upcoming authorities spending battle to shore up Social Security and Medicare. ...

A parliamentary inquiry has concluded that Boris Johnson knowingly misled parliament a number of occasions in his statements about events in Downing Street that breached COVID guidelines.The former prime minister has been underneath investigation by the Commons privileges committee since final June, after an investigation by police after which senior civil servant Sue Gray confirmed a sequence of gatherings had taken place in Downing Street throughout lockdowns. The cross-party committee, led by Labour MP Harriet Harman, has been assessing whether or not Mr Johnson misled parliament - both recklessly or intentionally - along with his statements claiming all COVID guidelines and steering have been adopted by Number 10.The publication of the report comes after Mr Johnson dramat...

Former President Donald Trump’s rising rap sheet is dragging the 2024 GOP presidential race into undiscovered territory and upending the standard knowledge that assumes that candidates crumble beneath the burden of prison prices. ...

DOVER, Del. — The state Supreme Court is mulling whether or not the University of Delaware was justified in denying requests from Judicial Watch and the Daily Caller News Foundation for information associated to the college’s receipt of President Joe Biden’s senatorial papers. ...

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Susan Hall is operating for London mayor on a platform of security and "fears". Her tagline is "Safer with Susan" and she or he calls herself "the candidate Sadiq Khan fears the most". As a member of the London Assembly for 5 years, she is not any stranger to City Hall and has commonly confronted off in opposition to the present London mayor at Mayor's Question Time.She has pitched herself as "the only candidate with the strength and the experience to take Sadiq Khan on and beat him".Sky News appears at her political profession and campaigning priorities as she makes a bid to return to City Hall.Party: ConservativeCampaigning priorities: Reverse the ULEZ enlargement, crack down on crimeNotable achievements: Leader of the London Conservatives on the London Assembly from 2019 t...

Former President Donald Trump has a number of defenses accessible to attempt to beat federal felony expenses of mishandling categorised paperwork and obstructing justice, authorized students say. ...