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LONDON — The British prime minister is once again stretching the limits of what is tolerable in public office. Call it a manifesto promise kept.
As Boris Johnson fields questions from the Metropolitan Police investigating alleged lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street, his premiership clings by a thread and his poll ratings are plummeting.
A separate inquiry by senior civil servant Sue Gray previously identified “failures of leadership” over these events, though Gray said she was “extremely limited” in what she could say because of the police investigation.
While Johnson waits to hear if he will face any penalty, his Conservative
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