Boris Johnson 'deliberately' misled Parliament over COVID breaches, report finds

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson "deliberately" misled Parliament about breaching his own COVID-19 lockdown mandates, a parliamentary committee said in a report published Thursday. 

If Johnson would not have resigned from Parliament last week, the House of Commons Privileges Committee said it would have recommended for him to be suspended from his position for 90 days. 

The report states that the suspension would have been for "repeated contempts" and for attempting "to undermine the parliamentary process" by "deliberately misleading" the House and the Committee and for being "complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the Committee," among other things.

Johnson, a member of the Conservative Party, said the committee denied him "any opportunity to challenge their findings and conclusions, no matter how wrong, selective, unreasonable, illogical or unsupported by evidence," according to The Spectator, a U.K. outlet.

Johnson had stepped down from his position as prime minister nearly a year ago following allegations he violated COVID lockdown measures, among other issues. He retained his seat in Parliament until last week, and his resignation triggered an upcoming special election.

Madeleine Hubbard is an international correspondent for Just the News. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram.