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Trust is a scarce commodity. Especially when it comes to politicians. Few people are naïve enough to think that those who seek to represent them have never had a tendency to exaggerate their achievements and skate lightly over their mistakes. Yet the gap between the standards that the public have a right to expect and some of the normalised behaviours of recent times is enough to turn the sunniest of optimists into a jaded cynic.
A Prime Minister would “normally” be expected to resign if they had lied to Parliament, a Cabinet Minister has said, amid fresh allegations that Boris Johnson was pre-warned about a drinks party at Number 10 in lockdown.
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