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Guto Harri

OPINION - Boris Johnson was handicapped by Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain — we should pity him

I’m one of the last people on the planet who wants to revisit “partygate”, but one niggling detail of the fallout still bothers me.

Boris Johnson — as the world knows — received a fixed penalty notice for a gathering in the Cabinet room on his birthday three years ago. Rishi Sunak — the teetotal chancellor that afternoon — was issued with the same fine. Yet another powerful figure, prominent in all the photos was not.

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