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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

‘Potentially serious impropriety’: Labour questions Johnson’s Venezuela meeting

Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson is accused of ‘repeated failure to abide by the ministerial code’ in Labour’s letter to the Cabinet Office. Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

Labour is demanding answers over what the party said was “potentially serious impropriety” by Boris Johnson after it emerged that the former prime minister met the Venezuelan president in his role as a consultant for a hedge fund.

Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, said in a letter to Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister and Cabinet Office minister, that there were concerns that Johnson may have breached the ministerial code.

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