It seems likely that MPs will vote on Monday to approve the report of the Commons Privileges Committee condemning Boris Johnson for misleading the Commons (though many Conservatives may abstain or will be deliberately absent).
That is not to say that the report was wholly convincing in every respect, or that the Committee members were all entirely impartial. It is a pity that the committee chairman, Harriet Harman, made her hostile views known in advance; and while there is no doubt that staff in Downing Street broke Covid rules which were applied rigorously to the rest of us, there remain nagging doubts about whether the then PM knew about all the things his staff got up to, or whether he just believed advice from his press people about whether the rules were being kept. What is clear is that if he didn’t know, he should have known and that he presided over a chaotic environment while ordinary individuals were fined for the smallest breach of the rules.
