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Ancient and modern

Boris Johnson may have found an advocate in ancient Greece

8 June 2019

9:00 AM

8 June 2019

9:00 AM

Boris Johnson is to be tried at the Crown Court on the grounds that, during the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign, he crucially affected the referendum result by arguing that the UK paid the EU £350 million a week, ignoring another interpretation that the sum was only £250 million a week.

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