‘Would I Lie to You?’: Boris Johnson and Lying in the House of Commons

A prerequisite of ministerial accountability in the UK is provision accurate information by ministers and Prime Minister to Parliament. This form ‘informatory accountability’, expectation that will not lie Parliament, at core parliamentary government. Yet, Boris Johnson's premiership, characterised a general propensity mislead, misinform, tell untruths openly, has led growing concern within Westminster PM's proclivity speak Commons with seeming impunity. study period from July 2019 December 2021 examines paradoxes procedural problems arise when presumption or utter deliberate falsehoods upended.