Do as I say, except at my dos: Boris Johnson’...

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Boris Johnson has resigned as British prime minister after a series of scandals meant his party could no longer support him.      

Latika Bourke, the Sydney Morning Herald’s UK correspondent, tells us Johnson will be remembered most for his role in Britain leaving the E ...

When allegations first emerged in November about parties held at 10 Downing Street, the residence and offices of the British prime minister, during a strict Covid lockdown, Prime Minister Boris Johnson waved them away. 

Yet in the weeks since, the scandal has only grown, ...