committee was also highly critical of his attacks on its integrity and recommended a suspension of 90 days from Parliament had he not resigned.
While a condemning indictment of the former prime minister’s conduct, the recommendation is largely symbolic because Johnson angrily quit as a lawmaker on Friday after the committee informed him of its conclusions. “We have concluded above that in deliberately misleading the House, Mr Johnson committed a serious contempt," the committee's report said. “The contempt was all the more serious because it was committed by the Prime Minister, the most senior member of the government.
There is no precedent for a Prime Minister having been found to have deliberately misled the House.'' The committee also said Johnson should not be granted a pass to Parliament’s grounds.
Johnson described the committee as a ‘kangaroo court’ that conducted a ‘witch hunt’ to drive him out of Parliament. A majority of the panel’s seven members come from Johnson’s Conservative Party.