By all means, go on. Find the lie. Dig through the transcripts. Comb through the Hansard archives, cross-reference the Select Committee minutes, replay every last Prime Minister’s Questions… frame by frame, if you must.
What you won’t find, to the dismay of every sanctimonious keyboard warrior and agenda-fuelled pundit from Westminster to Woking, is a single provable instance of Boris Johnson intentionally lying when he was Prime Minister.
Let’s be clear: Boris is a showman. A man of bluster, wit, Latin quotations, and wild blond hair that moves sometimes with the same wonderful chaos as his metaphors. He will waffle, he will swerve, he will inflate and charm and dance around a direct answer like a likeable Shakespearean rogue. But to conflate all that with lying? That’s not journalism. That’s theatre. And the fact remains… Boris didn’t lie.
I said it then and I’ll say it until the day I die, what we had was a politically motivated witch-hunt against Boris, dressed up in ermine robes and wielding the vocabulary of faux righteousness. A Kangaroo Court of opinion masquerading as objectivity. The so-called Privileges Committee said Boris “intentionally misled the House” and yet, when pressed for actual evidence of intent, they produced nothing but hunches, assumptions, and the kind of mind-reading you’d expect from an a bad psychic. They redefined the rules mid-game and retrofitted their conclusions. They didn’t find a liar; they built one.
Let me speak plainly again: Boris Johnson did NOT lie in PMQs. He admitted he may have unintentionally misled the House based on the information he had at the time. This is a far cry from a calculated deception. This is NOT a lie. This is fallibility, not fraudulence.
YOU, dear reader, would have said and done exactly the same. Anyone would have.
But the most astonishing part? The media, so quick to declare Boris a liar with confetti-cannon certainty, have suddenly gone mute when it comes to Keir Starmer. We now tiptoe around the “L-word” like it’s Voldemort. A word too impolite for the cocktail circuit, too crude for the BBC subtitles. When Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch recently called Keir Starmer out for his blatant falsehoods, the response from the press wasn’t “Is this true?” but rather “Is this dignified?”
Let’s drop the pretence. Starmer has lied. Repeatedly. He lied to get the Labour leadership. Lied to get into No 10. Lied to win the hearts of the unions. Lied to court the middle-class swing vote. Lied about tuition fees, about tax, about green policy, about Brexit clarity. Lied by omission, commission, and by contortion. There are dozens—if not hundreds—of factual rebuttals out there. But the media? Silent. Selectively squeamish.
Farmers see it. Businesses see it. Pensioners freezing through winter certainly saw it. Surely every sane person in Britain can smell the difference between Boris’s bluff and Keir’s boardroom spin. One is human imperfection wrapped in charisma. The other is cold calculation cloaked in grey suits and legalese.
Let me be unequivocal: I was personally named in the House of Commons over the so-called kangaroo court affair. A private citizen dragged into parliamentary record, I might add, with no right of reply. And yet, not a single MP, not one judge, not even the Speaker himself could point to a single untruth in what I said and what you, Conservative Post readers, helped me present to them.
An old school friend of mine with a brilliant mind and sharp legal eye laid down the case so perfectly that together we proved without a shadow of a doubt, the truth remains unshaken: Boris Johnson did NOT lie in PMQs.
Go on I challenge you to find the lie. Not the misquote, not the spin, not the editorial slant. The actual lie. Show the proof. Show the intent. Show something—anything—more concrete than the sanctimonious fumes of a Committee desperate for a scalp.
Until then, Boris walks unshackled through the court of truth… acquitted not by spin, but by the absence of any evidence to convict. Those who branded him a liar with headline ink and parliamentary sneers? They owe him… not just him, but this entire country, an apology. A loud one. A public one.
Meanwhile, Keir Starmer… oh, how the lies pour forth like confetti at a hollow victory parade. Unkept promises tossed like ticker tape, fluttering from podiums built on focus-grouped fiction. And yet, the media stays hushed. The same sanctimonious scribes who branded Boris a villain now wince at the word “liar” because this time, it’s their man.
The double standards are not just despicable… they are corrosive. The Privileges Committee, that vaunted temple of parliamentary propriety, revealed itself as a pantomime tribunal… more interested in political scalp-hunting than principled judgment. They bent rules, blurred facts, and delivered not justice, but theatre.
This isn’t just a failure of fairness. It’s a betrayal of truth itself.
By Claire Bullivant.
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I had the same view of all that nonsense with Boris – no lie at all. Anyone who is accused of a crime is entitled to plead not guilty.
If they are subsequently found to be guilty, that doesn’t mean they were misleading those they spoke to about the case prior to teh verdict – it merely means that they didn’t think they were guilty.
In Boris’s case, he wasn’t guilty of anything but being ambushed by a slice of birthday cake – and perhaps of not being hard-hearted enough to send them away.
Yes, there were gatherings with drinks after work. I thought they should have pointed out that these were people working in a pandemic to keep the country running, who were already at the same risk level by virtue of being in contact with each other anyway, for work.
Perhaps they should have said that before they did it, paining themselves as the heroes of the pandemic, instead of letting other malign forces “discover” it (the sneaky malign forces who photographed it and sent the photos to the PM’s enemies).
Then there’s Sunak, who also received a FPN – but was then elected PM… afterwards. Why no Kangaroo Court for him?
And Starmer, who was doing the same with his beer and curry. Boris was doing is as GOVERNMENT (i.e. essential work). Starmer was doing it for purely political purposes (i.e. non-essential). Nobody pointed out the glaring difference.
Our politics is broken. Subverted by people with either mal intent or a lack of brains.
It would make a huge difference to the perceptions the Country has of the Conservatives if everything that the party is accused of i.e. Boris wrong doing which was not true – the ECHR holding up the deportations and the Civil Servants who did not do their jobs should be named and sacked – if this was explained simply and consistently the Country would get it.