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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Boris Johnson insists he would have won July election in new book

Boris Johnson sitting in front of a microphone
Boris Johnson giving evidence to the Commons privileges committee over lockdown parties in March 2023. Photograph: House of Commons/UK parliament/PA

Boris Johnson has insisted he would have won another election if he had not been forced from Downing Street, arguing in his new memoir that he broke no rules with lockdown parties and was the victim of a conspiracy.

The former prime minister’s book, Unleashed, also reveals that he believed the risk to peace in Northern Ireland from Brexit was exaggerated and was used by opponents “to trap the UK in the EU”.

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