Boris Johnson is under mounting pressure over payments for the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat and wider claims of cronyism in his government.
Labour launched a legal bid for the Electoral Commission to investigate how Boris Johnson paid for the lavish refurbishment of his Downing Street flat - and whether he broke electoral law. The party’s lawyers late on Sunday sent a formal letter to the watchdog stating that it was “now incontrovertibly in the public interest” to “commence a formal investigation” into the PM’s activities.
It comes after international trade secretary Liz Truss dodged questions on whether the prime minister received a loan from a Tory donor to pay for the refit, calling claims made by Mr Johnson’s former top aide, Dominic Cummings, as “tittle tattle”.
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