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No 10 denies claim Johnson lied to his standards adviser over flat refurbishment

The Downing Street lobby briefing has just ended. It was particularly long because there were extensive questions on Covid and on the No 10 flat refurbishment.

On the latter, Downing Street does not accept that Boris Johnson lied to Lord Geidt, the independent adviser on ministers’ interests (sometimes referred to as the independent adviser on ministerial standards), about the flat refurbishment. In fact, the spokesman specifically rejected the charge.

Asked to explain the discrepancy between the Geidt report (pdf), which says Johnson told him he did not know Lord Brownlow had paid the flat refurbishment bills until “immediately prior to media reports in February 2021”, and the Electoral Commission report, which said that on 29 November 2020 Johnson messaged Brownlow via WhatsApp “asking him to authorise further, at that stage unspecified, refurbishment works”, the spokesman implied the WhatsApp conversation did not cover the full detail of how the money was being paid, and that this was why lying was not involved.

The spokesman said:

As as set out Lord Geidt’s report, the prime minister was not aware of the details of the underlying donor until immediately prior to media reports in February 2020, when he immediately saw the necessary advice about his interests, and as a consequence settled the amount himself. That was on 8 March.

Lord Brownlow was appointed by the PM as chair of the trust on 23 June and Lord Geidt’s report notes that Lord Brownlow behaved in a confidential manner, consistent with his own experience with blind trusts.

And despite the prime minister and Lord Brownlow having some limited contact during the following three months, the record shows no evidence that the prime minister had been informed by Lord Brownlow that he had personally settled the total costs.

As you’ve seen, the Electoral Commission report shows Lord Brownls decision to cover the refurbishment costs personally came a day after his message to the prime minister.

Asked specifically if the PM had lied to Lord Geidt, the spokeman said: “No.” He also said that Johnson had not lied to the public about this affair.

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Guest Bob Mahelp

The problem for Johnson is that he's not a man who inspires loyalty....mainly because he has never in his life had any sense of loyalty to anyone other than himself. There are plenty of people that he's shoved under the bus either to further his career, or to save himself. 

That's how cowards work. 

Oh, he has staff around him at the moment to protect him to a certain extent, and like that Stratton woman some may even take a fall for him. 

But once push comes to shove, and these people see that Johnson's little empire is crumbling and is about to fall, he'll have no loyalty from anyone. That's when we'll hear what a chaotic shambles his time as PM has really been. 

Pass the popcorn. 

 

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32 minutes ago, Bob Mahelp said:

The problem for Johnson is that he's not a man who inspires loyalty....mainly because he has never in his life had any sense of loyalty to anyone other than himself. There are plenty of people that he's shoved under the bus either to further his career, or to save himself. 

That's how cowards work. 

Oh, he has staff around him at the moment to protect him to a certain extent, and like that Stratton woman some may even take a fall for him. 

But once push comes to shove, and these people see that Johnson's little empire is crumbling and is about to fall, he'll have no loyalty from anyone. That's when we'll hear what a chaotic shambles his time as PM has really been. 

Pass the popcorn. 

 

There will be no popcorn. Tories will still be in power. There are more sinister fascists lurking about that party that want the top job. And ones who actually know what they are doing.

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6 minutes ago, Highlandmagyar Tier 3 said:

There will be no popcorn. Tories will still be in power. There are more sinister fascists lurking about that party that want the top job. And ones who actually know what they are doing.

Who are the sinister fascists?

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36 minutes ago, Highlandmagyar Tier 3 said:

Just have a good look at the Home Secretary for starters.

Surely you don't mean fascist in the true sense of the word though?

One of the most overused words nowadays.. that and 'racist'.

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19 minutes ago, Jeff Venom said:

I don't know how anyone can look down the list of fascist characteristics and deny that this, this current Tory party, is a quasi-fascist party.
 

Labour under Corbyn so their point has certainly moved and Lib Dems perhaps a little skewed due to a hangover from their Tory propping coalition days, but today's Tories are probably further up that corner having taken the UKIP and Brexit party core policies and vote. Tories on here wanting definitions of "racists" and "fascists" are off the chart. 

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