Boris Johnson bruised in the press following lockdown party apology

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Boris Johnson bruised in the press following lockdown party apology
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The Prime Minister has again been resoundingly lambasted in the national papers.

Senior Tory backbenchers William Wragg, Douglas Ross and Caroline Nokes have openly called for Mr Johnson’s resignation, while one Conservative told the paper he “didn’t apologise for what he did but for things that may or may not have happened which he officially knows nothing about until Sue Gray tells him about it”.

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