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Michael Gove says helium would not ballot for a study that recovered Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament implicit Partygate.
The lodging caput told the BBC determination were areas wherever the ex-PM "falls short" of expectations.
But the proposal Mr Johnson should person been suspended for 90 days if inactive an MP was "not merited", helium added.
Mr Gove said helium would abstain successful the ballot scheduled for Monday.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is yet to accidental however helium ballot connected the study into his erstwhile boss.
In the report, the Commons privileges committee said Mr Johnson had deliberately misled MPs implicit lockdown parties successful Downing Street.
He had "personal knowledge" of rule-breaking, and had "closed his mind" by not seeking assurances astir compliance, it found.
It said it would person recommended a 90-day Commons suspension for Mr Johnson, partially due to the fact that of his furious absorption to an beforehand transcript of the report's findings, including him calling the committee a "kangaroo court".
The suspension volition not use fixed the erstwhile premier curate discontinue arsenic an MP earlier the study was published.
The committee said his calling the committee a "kangaroo court" successful his resignation connection had "impugned the integrity" of Parliament.
But speaking to BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Gove said a prohibition of specified magnitude - uncommon successful caller years - was "not merited by the grounds the committee person enactment forward".
He added that determination were "complexities" successful the report, and it wasn't close to trim it to "a azygous badge to pin connected Boris Johnson".
Opposition parties are apt to ballot to endorse the study scheduled for Monday, which besides calls for Mr Johnson of the parliamentary walk helium would usually beryllium entitled to arsenic a erstwhile MP.
Downing Street has yet to accidental however Prime Minister Rishi Sunak volition vote, oregon adjacent if helium volition instrumentality part.
It is besides not yet wide whether a part - wherever MPs spell done the voting lobbies to bespeak their enactment - volition adjacent instrumentality place, with Mr Johnson asking his supporters not to ballot against the report.
If nary 1 successful the enclosure shouts "no" to reason a question approving the report, it volition beryllium passed without a division, meaning the votes of idiosyncratic MPs volition not beryllium recorded.
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