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1. 

   @ShelbyG.O.-ji9vl

   December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

   China is with IRAQ and Switzerland

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2. 

   @SonicFan3600000

   December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

   who has the upper hand? Starmer.

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3. 

   @fel_pie

   December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

   What a fun time

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4. 

   @dimamatat5548

   December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

   Such a shame that the monarchy let itself gradually be replaced by bickering politicians. Why can't we get back to the times when the royalty was supreme and actually got things done?

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   @jupiterjames4201

   December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

   John Bercow for PM

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   @gusmlie

   December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

   Boris is an absolute **** yet I still loathe Sunak and Hunt more.

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   @accessvirus1

   December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

   Sunak was found guilty too of breaking the rules.

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   @SevenEllen

   December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

   Sunak vs Johnson? 😕 Why can't they BOTH lose?? 😀

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   @moriamakiese2077

   December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

   This is better than EastEnders

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10. 

    @MazzaEliLi7406

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Thank you.

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11. 

    @MazzaEliLi7406

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    COPY PASTE_LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) – Boris Johnson deliberately misled the British parliament in an unprecedented way over rule-breaking parties at his office during COVID-19 lockdowns, a committee said on Thursday in a damning verdict that further tarnished the former prime minister
    
    Almost a year ago, Johnson was talking about remaining prime minister into the 2030s. But the privileges committee – the main disciplinary body for lawmakers – said on Thursday he should now be stripped of having automatic access to parliament.
    
    The committee also accused Johnson of being "complicit in a campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation" towards them.
    
    In typically combative style Johnson, who in 2019 led the Conservatives to a landslide election victory, dismissed the report as "a lie" and "a charade", and accused committee members of waging a vendetta against him.
    
    The stand-off will do little to heal the deep divisions in the Conservatives and can only pile pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose push to try to boost Britain's flagging economy is being overshadowed by the ongoing Johnson drama.
    
    The more than 100-page report detailed six events held at Downing Street, the prime minister's offices and residence.
    
    "We conclude that in deliberately misleading the House Mr Johnson committed a serious contempt," the committee said:
    
    "The contempt was all the more serious because it was committed by the prime minister, the most senior member of the government. There is no precedent for a prime minister having been found to have deliberately misled the House (of Commons, lower house of parliament)."
    
    It recommended that he should not be entitled to a former member's pass, which enables most former prime ministers and lawmakers to gain automatic access to parliament. Parliament will consider the committee's recommendation on Monday.
    
    Asked about the report's conclusions, a spokesman for Sunak said the prime minister had not as yet read it but he believed the committee had carried out the inquiry properly and "that it would not be right to traduce or criticise the work" of it.
    
    The committee, made up of four Conservatives and three opposition lawmakers, rejected Johnson's defence that the gatherings were within the rules and that his advisers had supported his belief that was the case.
    
    Instead, it said, Johnson was "deliberately disingenuous when he tried to reinterpret his statements to the House to avoid their plain meaning and reframe the clear impression that he intended to give".

    It said that were Johnson still a member of parliament, it would have recommended a suspension from the House of Commons for 90 days.
    
    "DAMNING"
    
    Johnson resigned from parliament last week after seeing an advance copy of the report, calling the inquiry a "witch hunt", a criticism he made again after its publication.
    
    "I believed, correctly, that these events were reasonably necessary for work purposes. We were managing a pandemic," he said in a statement.
    
    He said the report marked a "dreadful day" for members of parliament (MPs) and for democracy. "This decision means that no MP is free from vendetta, or expulsion on trumped up charges by a tiny minority who want to see him or her gone from the Commons," he said.
    
    He accused the committee of using mystical powers to see things that he had not seen at Downing Street, when, he said, he was duty bound to thank staff who were departing or for their work on COVID-19. The committee did not accept his defence.
    
    The Labour Party said the report was "damning".
    
    "While Rishi Sunak is distracted with the ongoing Tory soap opera people are crying out for leadership on the issues that matter to them," said Thangam Debbonaire, a member of Labour's top team.
    
    A former Johnson aide said the report did little more than confirm his "semi-retirement" from where he would still exert "huge influence" over the Conservative Party.
    
    Johnson has apologised for his conduct but repeatedly denied deliberately misleading parliament, saying he took advice from his aides that his office were following the rules.
    
    But so-called Partygate spelt the beginning of the end for his tenure as prime minister. A rebellion in the Conservative Party last year, when ministers resigned en masse, forced him in July to say he would step down. He left office in September.
    
    He resigned from parliament last week, ending his time as a so-called backbench lawmaker who continued to wield significant influence within the Conservatives that at times undermined Sunak's authority.
    
    They have also rowed this week over the former prime minister's resignation honours list.
    
    Reporting by Elizabeth Piper, Alistair Smout, Andrew MacAskill, Kylie MacLellan, Muvija M and William James; Editing by Kate Holton, Frank Jack Daniel and Angus MacSwan

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12. 

    @MazzaEliLi7406

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    UK's Boris Johnson and the 'partygate' scandal_TIMELINE
    
    Reuters
    
    June 15, 20234:17 PM GMT+1Updated 18 hours ago
    
    Boris Johnson deliberately misled UK parliament – report
    
    LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) – Britain's Boris Johnson should be excluded from parliament for deliberately misleading lawmakers over rule-breaking COVID lockdown parties at his office, a committee said on Thursday in a damning report the former leader described as "rubbish".
    
    Below is a timeline of the events surrounding what has been dubbed "partygate" by the media.
    
    2021
    
    Nov. 30 – The Mirror newspaper reports Christmas parties took place in government offices, including Johnson's No. 10 Downing Street, in December 2020, when such gatherings were banned.
    
    Dec. 1 – Johnson, asked about a December 2020 party, tells parliament: "All guidance was followed completely in No. 10."
    
    Dec. 7 – ITV News publishes a leaked video showing Johnson's staff joking during a mock news conference over how to explain a gathering in Downing Street.
    
    Dec. 8 – Johnson tells parliament: "I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no COVID rules were broken."
    
    Dec. 9 – The government launches an inquiry into the alleged gatherings.
    
    2022
    
    Jan. 10 – ITV publishes an email sent by Johnson's top aide to more than 100 Downing Street employees in May 2020, inviting them to "socially distanced drinks in the No. 10 garden … and bring your own booze!"
    
    Jan. 12 – Johnson tells parliament he attended a gathering on May 20, 2020 in the Downing Street garden and apologises, saying he believed "implicitly that this was a work event".
    
    Jan. 14 – Johnson's office apologises to Queen Elizabeth after it emerged staff partied late into the night on the eve of her husband Prince Philip's funeral in April 2021, when mixing indoors was banned.
    
    Jan. 31 – Senior civil servant Sue Gray, who is leading the government's inquiry, publishes interim findings which point to "serious failures of leadership" and condemn the behaviour.
    
    April 12 – Police issue an initial 50 fines over the gatherings, including to Johnson, his wife Carrie, and then finance minister Rishi Sunak. Johnson rejects calls to resign.
    
    April 19 – Johnson apologises to parliament and says he had not deliberately misled them.

    Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks at the parliament in London, Britain, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
    
    April 21 – Lawmakers, including from Johnson's own party, back an opposition motion that his statements "appear to amount to misleading the House" and should be investigated by its Committee of Privileges.
    
    May 19 – The police hand out 126 fines relating to eight dates when events were held at Downing Street and the Cabinet Office.
    
    May 25 – Gray publishes her full findings, which do not specifically blame Johnson.
    
    June 6 – Johnson survives a confidence vote of his Conservative Party's lawmakers but faces a large rebellion, with only 59% backing him.
    
    July 7 – Johnson quits as prime minister, after another scandal – involving the appointment of a minister who had been accused of sexual misconduct – triggers the resignation of two cabinet ministers.
    
    July 15 – The Privileges Committee requests diaries, emails, photos and mobile phone messages from Johnson's office as part of its inquiry.
    
    2023
    
    Jan. 11 – ITV reports in a podcast that Johnson joked to staff "this is the most un-socially distanced party in the UK right now", during a boozy No. 10 leaving do.
    
    Feb. 3 – Johnson says in interview "anybody who thinks I was knowingly going to parties that were breaking lockdown rules in No. 10, and then knowingly covering up parties that were illicit that other people were going to … they're out of their mind."
    
    March 3 – Privileges Committee says evidence it has so far "strongly suggests that breaches of guidance would have been obvious" to Johnson at the time he was at the gatherings.
    
    March 22 – In a combative public hearing, Johnson tells the committee that "hand on heart" he did not lie to parliament.
    
    May 23 – The Cabinet Office says Johnson has been referred to police over further potential breaches of lockdown rules, which he denies
    
    June 9 – Johnson resigns from parliament after receiving details of the upcoming report from the committee. He calls the investigation a witch hunt.
    
    June 15 – The report is published. It says Johnson intentionally mislead parliament on several occasions and recommends he be denied automatic access to parliament usually granted to former lawmakers.
    
    He calls the report "rubbish", "a lie" and "a charade", and accuses committee members of waging a vendetta against him.
    
    Compiled by Sachin Ravikumar, Kylie MacLellan and William James Editing by Andrew MacAskill, Gareth Jones and Frank Jack Daniel
    
    Thank you.

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13. 

    @MazzaEliLi7406

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    COPY PASTE: INDEPENDENT June 15, 2023 BREXIT & JOHNSON
    
    Boris Johnson's trade deal won't be reviewed until 2026
    
    Ex-PM in the spotlight, as EU downplays chances of major upgrade to trade deal 
    
    Boris Johnson is finally getting his comeuppance. Today’s Partygate inquiry report is expected to finish off whatever’s left of his floundering political career. The Covid inquiry offers more days of reckoning ahead. The inquiry’s lead lawyer revealed this week that Boris’ no-deal Brexit threat “crowded out” work needed to prepare for a pandemic, sucking up Whitehall’s emergency planning resources. Michael Barnier, the former EU negotiator, was also scathing about Johnson’s Brexit legacy. Barnier said Boris was to blame for two “lost” years of protocol shenanigans because he had no “respect” for his own Brexit agreement. Meanwhile, current EU negotiator Maros Sefcovic said Boris’s trade deal could not be renewed until 2026, a year later than previously thought. Sefcovic also warned there would be no wholesale changes. So it looks like Keir Starmer, if he wins the election, will be lumbered with Johnson’s mess.
    
    The Brexit Headlines
    
    EU rules out renegotiating Brexit deal for years
    
    Maros Sefcovic ruled out renegotiating the trade deal until 2026, dashing hopes it could be improved.
    
    Rees-Mogg was told to be ‘pain in Sunak’s backside’
    
    Boris Johnson is said to have given his ally Rees-Mogg “carte blanche” to defy Rishi Sunak in scrapping EU rules.
    
    Britain can rejoin EU any time, says Barnier
    
    The ex-EU negotiator said “the door is open” to reverse Brexit, and claimed Boris Johnson did not “respect” his own deal.
    
     What you might have missed
    
    • Boris Johnson’s threatened no-deal Brexit drained Whitehall of “resources and capacity”, the Covid inquiry’s lawyer said.
    
    • Brexit’s end of freedom of movement has not led to a promised boost in wages, government advisers have said.
    
    • The NI secretary has denied that his request for info on revenue-raising is
    
    • an attempt to pressure the DUP to re-enter Stormont.
    
    • Both the Tories and Labour are “in complete denial” about the link between Brexit and the cost of living crisis, said the SNP.

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14. 

    @thestrongestman1008

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Boris had the biggest majority in 50 years? Blair had 3 Majorities that were far bigger.

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15. 

    @lw1zfog

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    all are owned & operated by the freemasonic City of London Crown Corporation, but yeah, do enjoy your little partisan polytricks shell game show kiddies.

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16. 

    @alexanderwaters3454

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    I would have critisized him straoght away if i was sunak. Weak

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17. 

    @Bean15_

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Hahahaahahahhaahah

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18. 

    @harrisonfreund7845

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    The House of Lords is an anti-democratic aristocratic farce that the United Kingdom should abolish.

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    @adamaalto-mccarthy6984

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    So what do you gain TLDR?

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20. 

    @recurse

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Love the shirt – I'm a big fan of yours and i appreciate the support 😙. Happy Pride!

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21. 

    @andrewdavies8954

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    what is far more important is,can Boris beat the hopeless Sunak

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22. 

    @mathieuleader8601

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Michael Howard had it right for firing Johnson it shows a great weakness by Mr. Cameron by initating his comeback

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23. 

    @jasc4364

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Boris, Trump and Putin are alike and very difficult to stop. They rely on nationalism and hatred of foreigners. They will be around for a long time.

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    @inquiring8059

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    … Let this be a lesson to all the other jumped-up johnnies and their followers…!!! 😅😁😉

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25. 

    @stevengrice4176

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Sunak is far too worried about knives in his back. His is a political lightweight. Failure is always an option.

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26. 

    @TheHorzabora

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    It’s really quite depressing to watch these people battle with one another while spouting abhorrent, illegal and – perhaps worst of all – foolishly impractical legislation as they utterly ignore the actual problems of the day in favour of self-interested populist politics.

    Democracies can be highly introverted, even self-absorbed, until reality comes crashing in – see the US before Pearl Harbour – and we as citizens or subjects absolutely contribute to this when we fail to be politically active. But to see people who are supposed to be statesmen and women actively promoting this style of behaviour…

    … one day the world is going to come crashing down hard on them. I just hope it doesn’t crash in on the rest of us as well.

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27. 

    @cobbler40

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Johnson has destroyed himself he doesn’t need any help

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28. 

    @sphinx1017

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Egotistical rich, privileged people have a pissing competition while poor people starve. Welcome to Modern Britain everyone.

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29. 

    @NS-pt9rr

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Boris doesn't need any help in self destruction !! Boris is an embarrassment to uk Politics & UK as a whole. He is just jealous of RISHI 😂😂😂. RISHI IS VERY POLISHED BORIS FCKG BUFFOON & EMBARRASSMENT !!

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30. 

    @kingace6186

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Boris Johnson just doesn't know when to give up. He won a populist election and then subsequently ran the country into the toilet. Now he is doing the same to his own party.

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31. 

    @KonradvonHotzendorf

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    How can Boris still be relevant

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32. 

    @peterfox2538

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    It should end them both.

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33. 

    @eliahabib5111

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    So Sunak according to Boris should follow his program and cut taxes….
    Let's see how that went the last time it was attempted by the tories after Boris left… it was a DISASTER causing the drop in party popularity that Boris says is Sunak fault while actually it's the unnamed one's.

    The question is not who would end on top. The question is what would be left once the dust settles!

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34. 

    @henriquecarvalho8919

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    In this race across europe , the only race I see is White , very White people participating

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35. 

    @AzizKhan-zu4ef

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    The name tory is so weird.

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36. 

    @justinbaverstock9869

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    They are just damaging eachother and bringing down the whole concervative party. They have bought it on themselves and i look forward to election time.

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    @user-ox6gs9kl3f

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    johnson has no chance now that indians are taking over uk

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    @PrivateUser123

    December 22, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Bring back Boris

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