Democracy as we know it is being bent out of shape by men like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump
Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson faces a grilling at Westminster tomorrow, but he is expected to come through it unscathed. Photo: Jonathan Brady/PA
Malachi O'Doherty
Today – Tuesday – Donald Trump expects to be arrested. Tomorrow, Boris Johnson will be brought before the privileges committee at Westminster and cross-examined on his lies to parliament and his flouting of the lockdown rules which he imposed on the rest of his country.
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