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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Aletha Adu

Tory minister dramatically QUITS at despatch box in new headache for Boris Johnson

A Tory minister has dramatically quit Boris Johnson's government over its "lamentable track record" on Covid loans fraud.

Lord Theodore Agnew told the Lords the Government's actions have been "desperately inadequate" with oversight of lenders "nothing less than woeful".

He said his resignation is not an "attack on the Prime Minister" and hopes it will prompt others "more important than me to get behind this mess and sort it out."

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