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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Harry Taylor

Boris Johnson calls diary checks for evidence of Covid breach ‘nonsensical’

Boris Johnson.
Boris Johnson made comments while in the US, where he met Donal Trump. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Boris Johnson has insisted the idea that evidence in diaries given to police might suggest further lockdown rule-breaking during the Covid pandemic is “absolute nonsense”.

The former prime minister said a Cabinet Office decision to give entries from his official diary to the police without checking their contents with him was “ridiculous”.

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