At stake

Whatever happens in the Commons committee rooms this afternoon, what is at stake is the basic premis:

That a Minister, or Prime Minister, musk make accurate and truthful submissions at the dispatch box.

Parliant debates and votes on many things, including whether to go to war. A Prime Minister, making a statement they know to be untrue or inaccurate, but happy to know that at some point in the future, once the war has begun or been waged, a statement correcting the record can be made, and that is that.

Parliament makes laws and decisions on Ministers statements, and they should be truthful.

That a known liar like Alexander Boris de Piffel Johnson made untruthful or inaccurrate statements and then failed to correct the record should surprise no one, but as the Prime Minister who stodd in front of the cameras several times a week explaining the laws and guidance we were to follow and yet he failed to see when those same laws and guidance were broken in the very building he lived and worked in, or that those rules did not apply to him, is just not credible.

Maybe like with Al Capone, it wasn't being a gangster that got him in the end, it was not paying taxes, so it might be with Johnson that it is not the lying, but the failure to correct the record that gets him.

We shall see.

Kick off is at 14:00 and is live on the UK Parliament website.