The Privileges
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| Originally published | January 5, 2010 |
| Authors | Jonathan Dee |
| Genres | Novel |
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| ID | 2381097 |
About The Privileges
Smart and socially gifted, Adam and Cynthia Morey are perfect for each other. With Adam's rising career in the world of private equity, a beautiful home in Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they are, by any reasonable standard, successful. . . .
Watchdog criticises decision to pay Johnson's £265,000 Partygate bill
... The inquiry by The Privileges Committee was launched last April, after opposition parties accused Mr Johnson of misleading MPs about gatherings in government buildings during Covid-19 lockdowns...
Caroline Nokes tells of about 50 'creepy' incidents in her time as MP
... The prime minister, including The Privileges Committee report that found that Boris Johnson had deliberately misled Parliament...
Memo reveals pressure on climate finance pledge
... Mr Sunak insisted Lord Goldsmith had quit after being asked to apologise for comments he made about The Privileges Committee inquiry over the conduct of Boris Johnson and whether he had intentionally misled the House of Commons as PM...
Rishi Sunak silent over Tory MPs' Partygate report attacks
... The Privileges Committee said last week that the MPs, including Nadine Dorries and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, had tried to " interfere" with the probe...
Zac Goldsmith resigns after criticism over Partygate probe
... He was among 10 Tories The Privileges Committee said was part of a campaign to interfere with their inquiry...
Johnson allies to be criticised over Partygate probe
... The former prime minister quit as an MP after The Privileges Committee found he misled Parliament over Covid breaches in No 10...
Why did Rishi Sunak miss Partygate vote on Boris Johnson?
... Cowardly cop-out If he had rejected the report, that would have angered other Conservatives who spoke passionately in defence of The Privileges committee in the Commons on Monday...
The vote on the Partygate report was about core principles - and blunt politics
... 118 Conservative MPs backed The Privileges Committee report...
Zac Goldsmith resigns after criticism over Partygate probe
Lord Zac Goldsmith has resigned as a minister, after being accused of undermining a Commons investigation into Boris Johnson .
He was among 10 Tories The Privileges Committee said was part of a campaign to interfere with their inquiry.
Lord Goldsmith said the government's " apathy" on Climate Change made it " untenable" for him to remain minister for The International environment.
He claimed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was " uninterested" in The Environment .
Lord Goldsmith was the only serving minister to be criticised by the cross-party committee for attacking its work.
In his resignation letter, He Said he had been " horrified" at the government abandoning its environmental commitments and withdrawing its leadership on The World stage.
He cited, as well as an abandoned pledge to spend £11. 6bn of UK aid on climate and environment.
" The Problem is not that the government is hostile to The Environment , it is that you, our Prime Minister , are simply uninterested, " he wrote.
" That signal, or lack of it, has trickled down through Whitehall and caused a kind of paralysis. "
Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats had called for Lord Goldsmith to resign after the Privilege Committee report's publication on Thursday.
However, Rishi Sunak 's official spokesman had said the Prime Minister continued to have full confidence in him.
The Committee 's report said " unprecedented and co-ordinated pressure" was placed on its members, who were investigating whether former Prime Minister Mr Johnson had misled Parliament over lockdown parties at Downing Street.
A tweet by Lord Goldsmith, in which he expressed support for The View that The Inquiry was a " witch hunt" and a " kangaroo court" was cited in The Report 's evidence.
However, other Tories named in The Report accused The Committee of trying to shut down freedom of speech.
Mr Johnson announced he was resigning as an MP days before The Committee published its initial findings, branding The Investigation a " kangaroo court".
The year-long inquiry found Mr Johnson made multiple deliberately misleading statements to Parliament about lockdown parties at Downing Street.
It ruled he should have been suspended for 90 Days had he remained in The Commons .
The sanction, which was lengthy by recent standards, would have been likely to trigger a by-election in Mr Johnson's constituency.
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