Boris Johnson's Partygate dossier looks like enough to free him of Commons suspension - for now 🔎 Analysis by HugoGye
, No 10 officials actually photographed them and briefed them out to the media in a sign of how convinced they were – wrongly – that it was all perfectly legal.
Mr Johnson’s critics would no doubt say that his relationship with facts has sometimes been known to be flexible.Even if the seven MPs who make up the body do reach that conclusion, they will need to win over a majority of the whole House of Commons in order to endorse any punishment – such as a suspension from Parliament – that they choose to recommend.
There is a risk that the committee may have undermined its own case by shifting the goalposts: it has declared that Mr Johnson could have committed contempt by acting “recklessly” even if unknowingly, an apparently novel concept, and has publicly rowed with him over the conduct of the investigation in a way that does credit to neither side.
Things could change: we have yet to see all the evidence that the committee has gathered, and Wednesday’s four-hour grilling could yet throw up new information that has Mr Johnson bang to rights. But on the basis of what we know right now, the “greased piglet” might just wriggle out of yet another jam.
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