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Torcuil Crichton

Keir Starmer blasts Boris Johnson for presiding over 'widespread criminality' as partygate fines roll in

Boris Johnson has presided over “widespread criminality” in the Downing Street partygate scandal and is unfit for office, Keir Starmer has said.

The Labour leader said the Prime Minister has “misled the public” over what he did and did not know about the events in Downing Street and should come before parliament to be held to account.

Starmer issued his strongest condemnation yet of the Tory leader after revelations that a senior civil servant in charge of maintaining standards in government is among the first group of people to receive a fixed-penalty notice.

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