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The Guardian - UK
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Andrew Murrison

‘Partygate’ may be the undoing of Johnson. But he delivered what his party needed

Boris Johnson
‘We were clear eyed about him then, we must own the consequences now.’ Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Sue Gray’s interim report into events at No 10 finds “failures of leadership and judgment”. Exactly whose failures are left hanging, for now.

I’m a serial Boris supporter. As an MP, I backed his abortive leadership bid in 2016 and his victorious campaign in 2019. I was drawn to his brand of Brexity, one-nation Conservatism. I doubt any of us backed him because we’d spotted a paragon of virtue. We were clear eyed about him then, we must own the consequences now.

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