LABOUR MP Dawn Butler has spoken out after being removed from the Commons for saying Boris Johnson has repeatedly lied to the parliament and to the public.

Temporary deputy speaker Judith Cummins warned Butler to correct the record after she made the comments during a debate, highlighting a series of false statements the Prime Minister has made on issues from the pandemic to the economy.

Parliamentary etiquette does not permit MPs to call other members liars.

A defiant Butler chose not to row back, telling Cummins: “It’s funny that we get in trouble in this place for calling out the lie rather than the person lying.”

Urged to “reflect” on her comments and withdraw them, Butler responded: “I’ve reflected on my words and somebody needs to tell the truth in this House that the Prime Minister has lied.”

Butler was then made to leave the Chamber for the remainder of the day. She won widespread praise for speaking out from across the UK, with many criticising the parliamentary convention that sees accusing someone of lying more severely punished than lying in itself.

Economist and National contributor Richard Murphy commented: "This is so ridiculous. Everyone knows Dawn Butler is right. Boris Johnson has lied repeatedly in the Commons but that is apparently OK. She says he has – which is the truth – and is suspended from parliament for saying so. Excluding her undermines the credibility of parliament."

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And prominent legal campaigner Jolyon Maugham said: "Not good that the House of Commons has become a place where lies go unpunished but the truth cannot be told."

Several Scottish Labour figures including Paul Sweeney and Monica Lennon praised Butler, but the UK Labour leader Keir Starmer did not comment.

On his Twitter following the incident his only activity was a retweet of the shadow home secretary saying the Tories are not the party of “law and order” amid a Labour push to appear tough on crime.

Butler spoke exclusively to Byline TV last night as her removal from the Commons received increasing levels of attention.

“So I got thrown out of the Chamber, and out of Parliament today – I had to leave the premises because I called the Prime Minister a liar on the floor of the House,” she said in the video.

“The thing is Boris Johnson is a serial liar. That’s been proven time and time again,” she said, before listing several of the examples she gave in the Commons – taken from filmmaker Peter Stefanovic’s viral video.

“I think in ordinary times you have governments that are in the main honest and they are principled,” she told the organisation. “What we have seen over the last 18 months is a government that is truly corrupt to the core.

“They will do whatever they want and whatever they like in order to get their hands on public money and to give that public money to their mates. And we’ve seen an erosion of parliamentary democracy.

"Let’s not forget that this government under Boris Johnson went to court to try and close down parliament and it got overturned, because they didn’t want us to have any say in anything that they’ve done. Under the Coronavirus Act 2020, it gave unprecedented powers to this government – Henry the 8th powers- that said they can do whatever they want when they want and we are not allowed to question them. That is wrong and really people should be worried about that.”

Butler added that there have been few consequences when ministers have found themselves in trouble during Johnson’s premiership.

“So, as a backbencher, if I cant call it out and say it as it is, who’s going to do it? And I just felt it was important today,” she explained.