It’s now official. For the first time a British prime minister has been found to have committed a criminal act while in office. Boris Johnson has been found to have broken draconian laws that he himself imposed on the rest of the country in a time of national crisis.
Furthermore, the proverbial dog in the street now knows that he repeatedly lied to the House of Commons by protesting that there were no parties, then that there were parties but he did not know about them and no rules were broken, and then that he attended parties but nobody told him they were against the rules that he had himself approved.
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