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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Tory minister resigns over Partygate with swipe at Boris Johnson over No10 rule breaking

A Tory minister has resigned over Partygate with a stinging rebuke to Boris Johnson over "repeated rule breaking and breaches of the criminal law in Downing Street".

Lord Wolfson announced he was stepping down as Justice Minister in the Lords in protest at the Government's response to the Partygate scandal.

The Conservative peer said it was a matter of the Prime Minister's "own conduct" as well as the "scale" of the lockdown breaches which took place in Downing Street and Whitehall.

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