The week ahead

Not trying to raise your hopes, but.

This week Donald Judas Trump might be arrested.

While here in the UK Alexander Boris de Piffel Johnson is up before the Parliamentary Standards Committee where he might be under oath, and he could find himself suspended from Parliament and then subject to a recall petetion.

And Dooinic Raab is to face news of whether heas is to be found guilty of multiple accusations of bullying.

Its bad enough for Johnson that he faces this, but as a proven liar, its not much of a stretch to suggest and accept he might have lied at the Dispatch Box as PM. He went from asserting there were no parties to it emerging he arranged at least one of them.

There were parties.

There were gatherings.

Both were against the Law and official guidance signed off by Johnson himself.

Not only that, under Parliamentary regulations, any Minister (or PM) who makes an inaccurate statement at the Dispatch Box should correct the official record at the ealiest possibile oportunity. And it is this that could be most problematic for his, as I don't think he ever did, until after accepting the FPN from the Metropolitan Police. The earliest possible oportunity would, at the latest, have been when he received Sue Grey's initial report.

But then, after all that, the Committee which is 5/4 consited of Conservative members have to make the reccommendation, then the Commons would have to ratify that.

Would enough of the Conservative side of the House vote to suspend the former PM? The current Home Secretary has said she would not, as Johnson "is a good leader", though one she resigned from his Government urging Johnson to "resign".

Raab is as gulty as a puppy sitting beside a large pile of poo, and should reqign, but it would probably be down to Sunak to decide if, even then, the Ministerial Code still applied.