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Former British PM Boris Johnson resigns from Parliament

IndiaTimes Friday, 9 June 2023
Britain's former Prime Minister Boris Johnson abruptly resigned his parliamentary seat on Friday, another dramatic twist in the career of one of the country's most flamboyant and divisive politicians. Johnson has been under investigation from a committee of the House of Commons that was looking into whether he had lied to Parliament over lockdown-breaking parties at Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The British lawmaker accused a parliamentary committee tasked with examining whether he mislead the Government over COVID-19 breaches of trying to 'drive him out of Parliament'.

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