Boris Johnson has breached rules in taking Daily Mail job, says watchdog

Acoba says former PM has clearly broken rules by not telling it about column until half an hour before it was publicly announced

Boris Johnson committed a “clear breach” of rules on former ministers taking up new jobs by telling an appointments body he was becoming a Daily Mail columnist only half an hour before the public announcement, the watchdog has said.

The former prime minister was unveiled as a new writer for the newspaper, a platform he is expected to use to be a thorn in the side of Rishi Sunak.

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