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Are the Tories suffering from 'Long Boris'?

The News Agents

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Is It a Contagion?

I had some very narrow sympathy with him about the point he made about that particular newspaper headline. But I would have a lot more sympathy if the letter had had a clear apology, both for the serious breach of the ministerial code and for the way he responded to journalists in the summer. So I don't think you can really complain that the verdict and the ethics advisor has come up with. It just so happens that still on Rishi Sunak's front bench, he has the Deputy Prime Minister whose face the allegations are bullying. He's got Swella Braverman, who was reinstated after also breaking the ministerial code over the whole email thing that she resigned over. Is there a contagion

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