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Paul Dacre: I made Boris Johnson cry

27 July 2019

9:00 AM

27 July 2019

9:00 AM

So the party of family values has chosen as leader a man of whom to say he has the morals of an alley cat would be to libel the feline species. Thus the Tories, with two women PMs to their credit, have achieved another historic first: scuppering the belief — argued by the Daily Mail in my 26 years as editor — that politicians with scandalous private lives cannot hold high office.

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