The British Parliament approved to investigate Boris Johnson for the party on Downing Street

The British House of Commons today approved opening an investigation into whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson lied to Parliament when he assured that he had no record that the parties held in his offices had violated the law.

The investigation, which will be carried out by the House Privileges committee, was authorized without a vote, after the presidency of the Commons asked loudly if anyone opposed it taking place and no one had shown their rejection.

The Government rectified today at the last moment its intention to delay this investigation, having found, according to the British media, that many conservative MPs did not support that measure.

The parliamentary committee will not begin work until the Police have completed its own investigation into the celebrations during the pandemic on Downing Street, as detailed in the motion tabled by the Labour Party that has been approved.

Today's debate in the House of Commons highlighted the discontent among the conservative ranks with their own prime minister.

“Tory” MP Steve Baker led the criticism from his bench by claiming that Johnson “should have long since left.”

Other conservatives, such as Bob Neill, failed to ask for his resignation but raised the tone of their reproaches: “Without reaching a final decision on the prime minister's position, I am deeply disappointed with what happened at number 10 Downing Street” during the pandemic, he said.

The head of Government, who decided to keep his pre-scheduled trip to India and did not attend the parliamentary session, had given the green light this morning to his co-religionists not to oppose the Labour motion, given the prospect that many of them would have abstained or voted against it as well, without abiding by the party discipline.

“What I've decided is that I don't want there to be an absence of scrutiny, and if the opposition wants to focus on this and continue talking about it, that's fine,” Johnson told the BBC.

The Privileges Committee must decide whether the prime minister lied to the deputies when he assured in December that he did not know that the anti-pandemic rules had been violated on Downing Street.

Having been fined himself and around fifty other government officials and employees for violating these rules, the opposition contends that he deliberately misled the House and must consequently comply with the parliamentary code and resign.

(With information from EFE)

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