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Former UK minister says PM Johnson should resign over lockdown parties

FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the CityFibre Training Academy in Stockton-on-Tees, Britain May 27, 2022. Owen Humphreys/Pool via REUTERS

Conservative lawmaker Jeremy Wright, a former British minister and attorney general, said on Monday he believed Prime Minister Boris Johnson had damaged the government's authority and should resign.

He joins several of Johnson's lawmakers who have withdrawn their support for the British leader since a damning official report published last week detailed a series of illegal parties at his Downing Street office during COVID-19 lockdowns.

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