Court ruling suggests Prime Minister Boris Johnson may have broken the ultimate taboo: Lying to Her Majesty
by Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Sep 11, 2019
4 minutes
It's one thing to make up tabloid-style tales of bumbling European Union bureaucrats, as former colleagues say Boris Johnson routinely did when he was a journalist in Brussels years ago.
It's another thing to mislead the public about how Brexit would supposedly benefit Britain's struggling National Health Service, as critics say Johnson and his hard-charging fellow Brexiters did during the 2016 referendum campaign over whether to leave the EU.
But it would be quite, quite, quite another thing to deceive Her Majesty the Queen - to actually lie to the 93-year-old monarch's face.
A Scottish court has
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