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Bob Seely, the Tory MP for the Isle of Wight, thanked the privileges committee, affirming he would vote .
“I have to say more broadly I am so over Boris and I’m pretty over lockdown as well. We are in danger of making Westminster look small and petty. Do not get me wrong, truth and politicians at the despatch box telling the truth is a fundamental building block, it’s a keystone to this place.
“For everyone who says ‘fantastic, you’re getting Boris’, or, you know, ‘the privileges committee is doing its job’, I can tell you now from my inbox there are other people saying ‘yet again, you’re talking about yourselves’. There were other big scandals to do with lockdown that, arguably, had more of an impact on our nation.”
On Mr Johnson’s rule-breaking, he suggested he “saw lockdowns as being difficult to obey, and frankly he was right in that – at that point, a wiser leader would probably have questioned his own rules, not sought to get around them. They were after all his own rules and you can love Boris but remorse is not one of his finer qualities.
“The scandal of Covid and how we dealt with it is not only whether there were Wine Fridays and cake in Downing Street, and people in protest carrying about pints of milk, but actually whether lockdown worked, the cost of lockdown in terms of lives, in terms of learning, in terms of sanity, in terms of money and in terms of truth.
“And I have to say since lockdown we have had extraordinarily little conversation about these critical issues. Give people a chance to give Boris a kicking and we’re queuing up to do so.”
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