Johnson absent from sleaze debate as Starmer says he has given ‘green light to corruption’ – live
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The Downing Street lobby briefing is over, and the prime minister's spokesman has confirmed that Boris Johnson will not be speaking in, or attending, the sleaze/standards/corruption debate in the Commons this afternoon.
And he won't be watching it on the TV in his office afterwards; he is on a visit to a hospital in the north-east. No 10 signalled that he would not be able to be able to return to London in time for the debate because the rail timetable did not allow this.
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