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Money spent on historic child sex abuse cases has been ‘spaffed up the wall,’ Johnson says
Boris Johnson delivers a speech at JCB headquarters in Rocester, Staffordshire in January, three days after the company paid him £10,000

BORIS JOHNSON was lambasted today for saying that money spent on historic child sex abuse cases is “spaffed up the wall.”

The former foreign secretary prompted immediate criticism by Labour chairman Ian Lavery for his comments on an LBC radio chat show.

Mr Johnson, who could possibly succeed Theresa May as the next Tory leader, said that police time and resources were being wasted on historic cases of child sexual abuse.

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