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Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil,David Bond and Rachael Burford

Boris Johnson may have to go if he lied to Commons, suggests Dominic Raab

Boris Johnson may have to resign if he is found to have lied to Parliament over the “partygate” scandal, a minister has suggested.

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab refused to be drawn into a “hypothetical” situation of the Prime Minister finding himself in such a position. However, he said that under the ministerial code, if a minister lies to the Commons and refuses to correct the untruth, then it would “normally be a resigning matter”.

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