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Outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London on July 11. Photo: Reuters
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A British prime minister has fallen from grace in another sordid chapter of sexual misconduct that engulfed the Tory leadership. What brought down Boris Johnson was a series of scandals, the last straw being his denial of the allegations of sexual misconduct against a senior Conservative Party member.

Johnson thought it could be brushed under the carpet in the time-honoured English manner, but he made the mistake of lying to the House of Commons. It was an open secret that former Conservative Party deputy chief whip Chris Pincher was a serial groper and sex predator.

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When it came to light that Johnson was aware as far back as 2019 of the complaints but still appointed him to his post, the resignations of government ministers mounted and Johnson’s days in office were numbered.

Max Hastings, Johnson’s former boss when he was a journalist at The Daily Telegraph, described him as a “gold-medal egomaniac” and “a man of remarkable gifts, flawed by an absence of conscience, principle or scruple”.

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Boris Johnson’s rise to power and what led to his downfall as UK prime minister

Boris Johnson’s rise to power and what led to his downfall as UK prime minister
History will remember Johnson as a failure and a liar. His tenure as foreign secretary was a disaster, remembered for his cruel comment about Libyan deaths during the country’s civil war.
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