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To survive, Boris Johnson must do more than pose as a war leader

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

Attending an impromptu birthday party in the office is not the most heinous of crimes, and of course Britain’s fixation on Downing Street’s breaches of lockdown rules looks rather perverse against the crimes being committed by Vladimir Putin’s troops in Ukraine. But there is little point in the Prime Minister or any member of his government attempting to argue that point.

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