MPs investigating whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament over lockdown parties in Downing Street have rejected a claim that their procedures are “unfair” and “fundamentally flawed”.
Lord Pannick KC and Jason Pobjoy were commissioned by the government while Boris Johnson was still Prime Minister to offer a legal opinion on the inquiry. On 2 September their opinion was published stating that the inquiry would be ruled unlawful by the courts.
The Privileges Committee today responded to the criticism, stating its own legal advisers had found that Lord Pannick’s opinion was founded on “a systemic misunderstanding of the parliamentary process and misplaced analogies with the criminal law”.
