John Bercow tells Good Morning Britain he can give ‘a number of examples’ of PM Boris Johnson lying

Appearing on Good Morning Britain with Alastair Campbell and Susanna Reid, Former House of Commons Speaker John Bercow said that he could give a number of examples of Prime Minister Boris Johnson lying in Parliament.

The debate comes as a video posted online by lawyer and filmmaker Peter Stefanovic fact checking false claims made by Johnson surpasses 15 million views. The video covers falsities made by the Prime Minister in relation to the likes of CO2 emissions, poverty statistics, nurses’ bursaries and the NHS.

‘Deliberately misleading the House of Commons’

Speaking on GMB, Bercow said: “I served in the House of Commons alongside five Prime Ministers, four during my tenure as speaker - Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson.

“None of the four preceding Boris Johnson was, in my judgement, guilty of deliberately misleading the House of Commons.”

Reid replied that she had to direct attention to guest host Campbell, who worked as spokesperson for ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair.

She said: “What about when Tony Blair told us about the reasons for going to war in Iraq and those turned out not to be the case. People will assume that there are things said in Parliament or by politicians that very often turn out not to be true.”