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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ben Hatton

Labour MP: No precedent for public paying Johnson legal fees in committee probe

PA Wire

A Labour MP has claimed there was no precedent for taxpayers paying Boris Johnson’s legal fees for the parliamentary inquiry which concluded the former prime minister deliberately misled MPs.

Karl Turner said there was no evidence to suggest the Government had paid the fees for former ministers involved in parliamentary inquiries on any other occasion.

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