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15

Jun 2023

Last Updated: 15/06/2023
Politics
Politics

Andrew Jones MP to vote for Privileges Committee recommendations

by John Plummer

| 15 Jun, 2023
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Boris Johnson in the Number 10 Downing Street Garden and Andrew Jones.

Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Andrew Jones has said he will vote to accept the recommendations of the parliamentary investigation into Boris Johnson.

The seven MPs on the House of Commons Privileges Committee today found the former Prime Minster deliberately misled parliament over lockdown parties.

The cross-party committee said the former PM had committed repeated offences and it would have recommended a 90-day suspension from the House of Commons had Mr Johnson not resigned as an MP last week.

MPs are expected to vote on Monday on whether to approve the committee's recommendations.

Mr Jones said:



“I called for the Privileges Committee investigation into this issue and I have supported its work.  I will be voting on Monday to accept their recommendations in full.”




Speaking in a Commons debate on April 21 last year on the referral of Mr Johnson to the committee, Mr Jones said:

"When there are questions about the conduct of any Member in this place, it is right for the Committee of Privileges to take a look at that case. It is right for it to investigate, it is right for it to make a judgment and it is right for that to happen whoever the Member is."


He added he wanted to "see more focus on standards across parliament".

Local Lib Dem says Tories in 'full-blown civil war'


Liberal Democrat Tom Gordon

Tom Gordon



Tom Gordon, the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Harrogate and Knaresborough, said today voting against the committee's recommendations  would be “an insult to bereaved families who grieved alone while Boris Johnson partied.”

Mr Gordon added:

“This report is completely unprecedented. Never before has a former British Prime Minister been found to have lied to parliament and treated the public with such contempt.
“The Conservative Party is now in a full-blown civil war, while people struggle to afford to pay their mortgage or get a GP appointment."





Read more:



  • Tories and Greens name candidates as local by-election looms

  • Andrew Jones MP says new police powers will help tackle Traveller issues in Knaresborough





Selby and Ainsty Conservative MP Nigel Adams, a close ally of Mr Johnson, also resigned last week, triggering a by-election.

The Conservatives and Greens have named their candidates to fight the seat, which includes numerous villages close to Harrogate, Knaresborough and Boroughbridge, including Spofforth, Follifoot, Kirkby Overblow, Goldsborough, Little Ouseburn, Nun Monkton, Green Hammerton and Kirk Hammerton.

Labour is expected to name its candidate tonight.