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AOB wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 7:14 am Johnson must be the worse advertisement for exercise ever. He always seems to be jogging or cycling. Imagine someone has just taken up jogging to lose weight and they're finding it hard, then they look at the state of him after (seemingly) years of regular exercise. The motivation would evaporate.

Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 12:20 pm I understand from the Twitter that Charlotte Owen is the daughter of Allegra Mostyn-Owen, Boris Johnson's ex-wife.
This wouldn’t take a Fleet Street hot shot reporter very long to confirm.

Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament over the Downing Street parties scandal, a committee of MPs will find on Wednesday after rejecting his central defence.

The former prime minister claimed that he was advised by senior officials that both Covid rules and guidance had been complied with at all times in No 10 during the pandemic.

However, the privileges committee, a parliamentary standards body that has investigated Johnson, has concluded that officials did not advise him that social-distancing guidelines had been followed, despite him repeatedly making the claim in the Commons. One of his most senior officials in fact warned him against making such a claim on the basis it was “unrealistic”...

...The committee’s report will state that Johnson would have been sanctioned with a suspension of more than ten days, enough to trigger a by-election. It is also expected to state that criticism of the committee should be considered contempt of parliament after Johnson and his allies repeatedly castigated members over the investigation...

...The Times has been told that Johnson also pressed Sunak to give his father a knighthood after he was cut from the resignation honours list. No 10 was said to be concerned that allowing Johnson to elevate his father would carry significant reputational risk...

...Martin Reynolds, Johnson’s principal private secretary at the time, advised him in December 2021 that he should remove a claim from a statement to the Commons that “all guidance had been followed at all times”. He questioned “whether it was realistic to argue that all guidance had been followed at all times”. Johnson removed the line from his opening statement but repeated the assertion during a debate in the Commons less than half an hour later...

Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 1:52 pm Not as bright as Olivia Utley. She has an eye for nepotistic advancement.