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Daily Mirror
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Dan Bloom

Dominic Raab claims Boris Johnson can't admit parties - because it'd 'pre-empt police'

Boris Johnson’s deputy today bizarrely claimed he cannot confess to lockdown parties - because it would prejudice the police.

Dominic Raab said the Prime Minister would be “criticised from all quarters” if he “professed publicly” that he attended a rules-busting bash in No10.

“If he did, if he started professing publicly this or that around any one of those allegations, he would be criticised from all quarters for pre-empting what is for the police,” Mr Raab told the BBC.

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