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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Archie Mitchell

Boris Johnson avoids punishment over ‘clear breach’ of rules with Daily Mail column

PA Wire

Boris Johnsonwill not be punished despite committing a “clear breach” of the rules in taking a job as a Daily Mail columnist, because further action would be “disproportionate”.

The government’s appointments watchdog found in June that the former PM had committed a "clear and unambiguous breach" of the rules by referring his new job to the watchdog just 30 minutes before it was publicly announced.

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