“It is for the people of this country to decide who sits in parliament, not Harriet Harman.” That payoff line from an angry Boris Johnson struck at the heart of the vindictive and hypocritical report condemning him by the House of Commons Privileges Committee, while highlighting the political agenda that lies behind it.
This report is so discreditable to its authors that it can only aggravate the public perception of the House of Commons as extravagantly entitled, a cockpit of fear and loathing, divorced from the views and concerns of the country. Boris Johnson, innocent or guilty, deserved justice by due process and that is something he has not had. His denunciations of the Privileges Committee as a “kangaroo court” are impossible for any objective observer to refute.
