Kick shamed Boris Johnson off Privy Council over his Partygate lies, demands MP
Boris Johnson should be kicked off the Privy Council as he’s not worthy of advising the King, an MP has said.
Liberal Democrat Wera Hobhouse warned that the lying ex-PM is “simply not fit to hold any form of public role for a minute longer”.
In a letter to Penny Mordaunt, the Lord President of the Council, she urged the government to remove him from the group of mostly current and former politicians, which provides advice to the monarch.
MPs earlier this week approved a damning report that found Mr Johnson lied and lied and lied over Partygate.
Ms Hobhouse said: “What Boris Johnson did was neither right nor honourable. The idea that he should still get to refer to himself as ‘Right Honourable’ is absurd.
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“Johnson has lied to the House of Commons and launched deplorable attacks on our Parliamentary democracy. It’s beyond time he faces the consequences for his actions.
Lib Dem Wera Hobhouse called for Boris Johnson to be removed from the Privy Council (Bath Chronicle)“The Conservative Government must remove Johnson from the Privy Council straight away.”
Writing to Ms Mordaunt, the Lib Dem said that Mr Johnson’s behaviour needed to be “very strongly condemned’.
She added: "We must send a clear signal that there is no place in British politics or in public life for someone who has no regard for standards. If we do not do so, we risk opening the door to people seeking to emulate Boris Johnson in the years to come.”
She added: “Following the Committee’s findings and Boris Johnson’s recent actions, it is clearly untenable for Johnson to remain a member of the Privy Council.
“In your role as Lord President of the Privy Council, it is incumbent on you to take a position. I therefore urge you to recommend that Boris Johnson be stripped of his Privy Councillor Status.
“We must do all we can to demonstrate that his behaviour will not be tolerated.”
Rishi Sunak has been accused of a "cowardly cop-out" after he avoided the vote on the Privileges Committee's findings that Mr Johnson deliberately misled MPs over Partygate.
The former PM has been banned from holding a Commons pass usually given to ex-MPs. He stepped down as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip ahead of the vote.
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