BREAKING: Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over boozy parties during lockdown, report finds.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
On Wednesday, the eve of the report’s publication, Johnson also called for the panel’s most senior Conservative member, Bernard Jenkin, to resign over claims that he had broken pandemic restrictions himself. Johnson’s move to quit Parliament means he can no longer be suspended, and his seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip will be contested in a special election next month.
Revelations of the booze-fueled gatherings, which took place at a time when millions were prohibited from seeing loved ones or even attending family funerals, angered many Britons and added to a string of ethics scandals that spelled Johnson’s downfall. Johnsonlast summer after a mass exodus of government officials protesting his leadership.
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