The Inquiry
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| Initial release | Spain |
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| Directors | Giulio Base |
| Budget | 8 million EUR (estimated) |
| Composers | Andrea Morricone |
| Story by | Ennio Flaiano |
| Suso Cecchi d'Amico | |
| Valerio Massimo Manfredi | |
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| ID | 2320678 |
About The Inquiry
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Infected blood: Tory rebellion expected on payouts amendment
... The Inquiry heard that one person dies as a result of contaminated blood products every four days...
Boris Johnson to apologise to Covid Inquiry but say he got big calls right
... His evidence will follow weeks of heavy criticism of him at The Inquiry...
Covid inquiry: Some local leaders put politics ahead of public health, says Hancock
... More on Covid and the Covid InquiryOn his second day of evidence to The Inquiry, he was questioned on government decisions as Covid cases began rising in autumn 2020...
Covid inquiry: Toxic culture damaged response, says Matt Hancock
... During The Inquiry, Mr Hancock has been accused of being untruthful...
Dominic Raab denies Dominic Cummings made key pandemic decisions
... Mr Raab, who was then also foreign secretary and later served as deputy prime minister, told The Inquiry: " There is a whole circus that can be built up in the media and elsewhere around the internal battles between individuals, and some of that is natural and healthy...
Covid inquiry: Michael Gove defends Boris Johnson over lockdown decision-making
... Mr Gove was the first senior cabinet minister at the centre of the UK government s response to the pandemic to give evidence in this part of The Inquiry...
Excluding us from meetings harmed Covid response, mayors tell inquiry
... The Inquiry heard that his earlier requests to attend were rejected by No 10 on the grounds that other regional mayors would then need to be invited...
What is behind Alex Salmond's new legal fight with the Scottish government?
... The Inquiry saw people like Mr Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon give hours of evidence, and laid bare the problems in the government s attempts to defend the judicial review after legal advice was published...
Partygate: I misled MPs but not intentionally, says Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson has accepted he misled Parliament over Covid rule-breaking parties in Downing Street, but denied he did it On Purpose .
The former Prime Minister has published a of his actions ahead of a grilling by MPs on Wednesday.
In it, he says his assurances to MPs that lockdown rules had been followed were made in " Good Faith ".
Mr Johnson faces being suspended or even expelled from Parliament, if MPs decide he deliberately misled them.
A group representing families of Covid victims said his claim to have acted in Good Faith was " sickening" and it was " obvious" he deliberately misled MPs.
The Privileges committee is expected to quiz him for several hours on Wednesday in a televised hearing.
The Committee , chaired by veteran Labour MP Harriet Harman , but with a Tory majority, has previously said Mr Johnson may have misled Parliament on multiple occasions.
It also says it has evidence which " strongly suggests" Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street would have been " obvious" to the then Prime Minister .
In his defence document, prepared by his taxpayer-funded legal team, headed by top barrister Lord Pannick KC, Mr Johnson says he had not " intentionally or recklessly" misled MPs, and would " never have dreamed of doing so".
He Said he accepted assurances he gave The Commons on several occasions after the Partygate scandal emerged in late 2021 that rules had been followed had turned out to be wrong.
But he believed at The Time that events he attended in No 10, including to bid farewell to departing staff, abided by restrictions because they were " essential for work purposes".
He added that it " remains unclear to me" why he was in No 10 for his birthday in June 2020.
He Said he relied on officials to advise him about other events in The Building he did not attend, and there was nothing " unreasonable" About That .
The Committee is expected to publish its verdict on Mr Johnson by the summer.
It has assembled evidence including written statements from 23 witnesses, official diaries, emails between officials, and WhatsApp messages handed over by the former Prime Minister 's legal team.
It will publish a " core bundle" of documents on Wednesday morning, ahead of Mr Johnson's hearing later in The Day .
In his defence document, Mr Johnson claimed The Committee had not found evidence he intentionally misled MPs.
He Said the " only exception" were assertions made by his former top aide Dominic Cummings , whom He Said was " discredited" and was motivated by personal animosity.
Mr Cummings hit back on Twitter, saying a drinks party in the No 10 garden attended by Mr Johnson had been deemed to have broken The Rules by police, with officials fined for attending.
In published earlier this month, The Committee said Mr Johnson's statements to MPs, as well as his performance at Covid press conferences, show that he understood what The Rules were.
In a statement on Tuesday, The Committee said Mr Johnson's written submission contained " no New Documentary evidence".
In his document, Mr Johnson attacked the conduct of The Inquiry , accusing The Committee of being " highly partisan" and going against precedents set by previous similar inquiries.
The Committee has decided that whether he intended to mislead MPs is not relevant to what it has been charged with investigating: whether it was stopped from doing its job by his statements to MPs.
But if they find that it was, then his intentions will be considered when deciding any punishment they recommend.
A finding that he deliberately misled MPs is likely to attract The Strongest sanction. Another option is they conclude he misled Parliament " recklessly".
In his submission, the former Prime Minister hit out at this reasoning, saying the idea of misleading MPs recklessly was an " entirely novel concept".
The Full House of Commons will have to approve The Committee 's final recommendations, as well as any sanctions. Conservative MPs will be given a free vote, meaning they will not be told How To vote by party managers.
The possible punishments range from ordering him to apologise to suspending him from The Commons .
If he is suspended for More Than 10 days, this could trigger a by-election in his constituency - although suspensions of this length have been rare in The Past .
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
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