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Morbid symptoms – the last days of the Johnson regime and ‘Old Corruption’
Johnson and his cronyism has sunk politics to new levels of depravity, says KEITH FLETT
JAMMY: Johnson is reported to be looking to write a column for the Daily Mail

BORIS JOHNSON resigned as prime minister on July 7 after only narrowly winning a confidence vote of Tory MPs. At that point he could have left office, appointed a caretaker deputy, and gone on holiday. 

Instead while Johnson has certainly gone on holiday — several of them — he has remained in post, drawing his prime ministerial salary and using the PM’s country house, Chequers. 

About the cost-of-living crisis he has done precisely nothing. He did, however, find time to make yet another visit to Kiev and promise further taxpayers’ money to continue the war there.

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