Decision of whether to absolve or condemn Johnson will ultimately come down to Tory MPs
Uncovered were 12 illegal gatherings – fuelled by suitcases of wine, a DJ and a karaoke machine – in defiance of tough restrictions on socialising, while millions of people were told to stay at home and were unable to say their final goodbyes to dying relatives.
A litany of documents was demanded by the committee that Liz Truss’s government was initially reluctant to hand over. They redacted, for instance, some evidence that was publicly available in the Sue Gray report. Harman, a king’s counsel and former solicitor general, is a stickler for process and prefers for submissions to be packaged into large, lawyerly bundles.
The former prime minister has already been given legal support by the government, at a cost to the taxpayer of up to £220,000. Hearings were meant to start two months ago, so the fee has nearly doubled.The first was an opinion co-authored by the cross-bench peer Lord Pannick. He argued that the investigation was “fundamentally flawed” because it neglected to require proof that any misleading of parliament by Johnson was intentional.
A second counter-offensive is also under way by Johnson’s most diehard political supporters to paint the inquiry as a “witch-hunt”. However, it can only make a recommendation about what happens next. Everything will come down to a vote in the Commons, likely to be officially unwhipped given it is “House business”.
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