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Dishonesty Writes End to Boris

South Asians played major role in British government including when they left it

Jul 08, 2022
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By: John Elliott

It took the UK’s two most prominent South Asian politicians, Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak, to trigger a series of rapid moves that led to the reluctant July 7 resignation of Boris Johnson, Britain’s charismatic but self-serving delusional prime minister.

By morning more than 50 other ministers had resigned. In what has become the most dram…

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