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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dave Burke

Boris Johnson speaks in Commons for first time in two months - to protest cuts

Holiday-loving Boris Johnson has made his first comments in the House of Commons chamber for nearly two months - begging for a police station in his constituency to stay open.

The disgraced former PM, who jetted off to the Dominican Republic - his third overseas break since July - after he last spoke in the House, today rallied against cuts ahead of the government's crunch Autumn Statement.

It is just the third time he has spoken in the House since he was forced out, despite still claiming a backbench MP's salary of £84,144.

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