UK Parliament’s Partygate Probe ‘Fundamentally Flawed’: Government Lawyer

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson waves while walking to a waiting car as he leaves from 10 Downing Street to head to the Houses of Parliament for the weekly Prime Minister's Questions, in central London, on July 13, 2022. Carlos Jasso/AFP via Getty Images

A UK Parliamentary investigation into Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s partygate scandal is “unfair” and “fundamentally flawed,” a top lawyer hired by the government has argued.

The probe being conducted by the Privileges Committee of the House of Commons aims to establish whether Johnson committed contempt of Parliament by telling the House on several occasions that no parties were held in Downing Street at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in violation of lockdown rules.