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Sophie Morris & Milo Boyd

Boris Johnson denies burning £50 note in front of homeless person while at uni

Boris Johnson has denied burning a £50 note in front of a homeless person.

Helen Goodman, the Labour MP for Bishop Auckland, made the allegations against the Prime Minister, claiming it related to his student days.

But Mr Johnson vehemently disputed the accusation, claiming it was "completely untrue".

Speaking in the Commons, Ms Goodman said: "I must say, I feel that the Prime Minister's goading of my colleagues from Yorkshire reveals that he has changed little since he was a student burning £50 notes in front of homeless people."

In response, Mr Johnson said: "Mr Speaker, the right honourable lady opposite has made an allegation about my conduct as a student which I'm afraid, if it were allowed to stand, would enter the record.

"She has no evidence or whatever because it is completely untrue and I would like you to ask the right honourable lady to withdraw it."

Speaker John Bercow was not quick to defend the Prime Minister however.

He said: "The honourable lady has said what she's said, but the Prime Minister from the dispatch box and with the full authority of his office and knowing his own background and recognising the duty of every member to speak the truth in the chamber, has exercised his freedom, and quite rightly so.

"The Prime Minister, I think, would rightly acknowledge that in the light of all that, he doesn't require any additional protections from me.

"He has put the record straight and it's there, it's on the record."

Ronald Coyne was caught burning money in front of a homeless person (Internet Unknown)

It is not the first time the practice of Conservatives burning money in front of homeless people has made headlines.

Back in 2017 University of Cambridge student and member of the Conservative Association Ronald Coyne was filmed attempting to light a £20 note near a rough sleeper.

He wrote a letter of apology and spent an evening giving out teas to homeless people before the story broke, his mum said at the time.

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