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Boris Johnson misled UK Parliament over lockdown parties: Report

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he runs near his home in Oxfordshire [Toby Melville/Reuters]

Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s former prime minister who was in power during the pandemic, deliberately misled parliament over lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street, a parliamentary committee ruled on Thursday.

After a yearlong investigation, the committee said Johnson would have been suspended as an MP for 90 days for “repeated” contempt of parliament had he not angrily resigned last week.

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