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The Boris Inquisition – Politics Weekly UK

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Partigate - Boris Johnson's Response to the Evidence Bundle

Boris Johnson's instinctive response with under pressure is to deny, and obfuscate. He was making a very clear distinction between apologizing again and taking full responsibility for the breaches that took place in Downing Street during lockdown. I think it's almost inevitable that he will be sanctioned. And my instinct is that they won't sanction him for 10 days or more leading to a by-election. It'll be for less than that. So it'd be serious enough to show that he's in the wrong, but not serious enough to cause another political earthquake with potential election battle.

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