£220,000 Johnson bailout fund for "cost-of-lying crisis"

EMBARGO: Immediate Release

Responding to the news that the Government has now budgeted £222,000 to support Boris Johnson's defence against allegations he misled Parliament, Liberal Democrat Chief Whip Wendy Chamberlain MP said: 

"While the British people battle with a cost-of-living crisis, this Conservative Government seems more interested in helping Boris Johnson with his cost-of-lying crisis. This is a sleazy new low for this Government, dragging politics into the gutter.

"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. 

"Rishi Sunak needs to step in immediately, stop this fund and apologise for his Government's chaotic track record of defending the indefensible."

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