BORIS Johnson has been accused of “corruption, plain and simple” after his ethics adviser released damning text messages he exchanged with the Tory donor who funded the lavish renovation of a Downing Street flat.
The explosive messages show that despite telling his ethics tsar, Lord Christopher Geidt, that he had no idea how the revamp was being funded, Johnson had personally asked for more cash for the project months earlier.
In a report looking into the £112,000 refurbishment of the flat at No 11 Downing Street, Giedt said he had been assured that “at no point in the eight months until late February 2021, as media reports were emerging, was the Prime Minister made aware of either the fact or the method of the costs of refurbishing the apartment having been paid”.
However, the messages sent from Johnson to David Brownlow, a Tory peer and former vice-chair of the party, reveal that the Prime Minister knew exactly where the cash had come from in November 2020
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