The taxpayers’ bill for the legal fees faced by Boris Johnson over Parliament’s Partygate inquiry has rised to more than £200,000, MPs have heard
Liberal Democrat chief whip Wendy Chamberlain said afterwards: “People will be outraged that hundreds of thousands of pounds of their money will be used to defend a lying lawbreaker who disgraced the office of Prime Minister.
At the Public Administration Committee hearing, Oliver Dowden, minister in charge of the Cabinet Office, said that all Whitehall departments were preparing proposals to cut their budgets over the coming months in order to avoid having to increase borrowing to cope with the impact of inflation.
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