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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dave Burke

Boris Johnson's Partygate defence bill rises to £245,000 - and we're paying for it

Taxpayers are set to cough up an enormous £245,000 to fund Boris Johnson's legal defence in Parliament's Partygate probe, it has emerged.

The cost to the public purse has risen for the second time in a year as the shamed ex-PM fights for his political future.

Now Rishi Sunak faces fresh calls to step in and make multi-millionaire Mr Johnson foot the legal bill himself.

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