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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aubrey Allegretti

Geidt resignation letter reveals frustrations of working with Johnson

Boris Johnson
Geidt said an attempt by Boris Johnson (above) to deliberately breach his own code was an affront. Photograph: Reuters

The final straw for Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser came this week when he was asked about a proposal to deliberately break the ministerial code by contravening trade laws, but Christopher Geidt’s resignation letter raised a litany of other issues.

As a civil servant known for his veiled and even-tempered language, this is what Geidt wrote when he resigned on Wednesday – and what it revealed about key events during his tenure.

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