Daily Mirror – ‘Boris Johnson on Holiday: Only here for the peer’
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Daily Mirror – ‘Boris Johnson on Holiday: Only here for the peer’
The Daily Mirror leads on the prime minister’s holiday, with the headline: “Only here for the peer.” The paper says that Mr Johnson is staying in a luxury villa which belongs to Zac Goldsmith, who he made a peer in 2019. The paper quotes shadow Treasury minister Bridget Phillipson, who said: “In the teeth of a crisis of its own making, the government has put its ‘out of office’ sign on.”
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