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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Jessica Elgot

The week Boris Johnson went to war with the law

Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson is the first sitting UK prime minister to have personally broken the law. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Rex/Shutterstock

Boris Johnson’s first speech in office extolled the virtues of “habeas corpus and the rule of law”. But three years later, the prime minister stands accused of trying to break international law twice in a week – on the Northern Ireland protocol and steel tariffs.

The latter led to the resignation of his ethics adviser, Lord Geidt.

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