MP IN BID TO BAN POLITICAL LIES
AN MP will launch a fresh bid to bring “world-beating liar” Boris Johnson to justice as she bids to ban lies from politics.
Plaid Cymru’s Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts, will unveil a Bill to Parliament tomorrow. Under her planned legislation, MPs, MSPs and members of the Welsh Senedd and Stormont Assembly, as well as police and crime commissioners and elected mayors, could be convicted of making “false or misleading statements”.
Johnson already faces a probe by the Commons Privileges Committee into claims he deliberately misled MPs on Partygate. Saville Roberts said: “Boris Johnson is a world-beating liar – we all know it, yet our political system is incapable of holding him to account for it.
“I will bring a Bill before Parliament this week to punish politicians who deliberately lie to the public.