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Grieve urges cabinet to act

The former Conservative MP and attorney general Dominic Grieve - a long-standing critic of Boris Johnson - says that cabinet ministers "need to grasp this particular nettle".

"This is yet another example of the prime minister being completely untrustworthy and directly contradicted by a former senior civil servant," he tells BBC News, adding that No 10 appears to have sent out ministers to "mislead the public on his behalf".

"If I were in the position of the deputy prime minister I would go and see the prime minister today at lunchtime and I would say, I’m very sorry, but you’ve got to resign, and I have to tell you that if you're not resigning I am resigning from your government immediately."

Describing Boris Johnson as "manifestly unfit to hold office," he says the Conservative Party is being damaged and may never recover.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-62048657