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Has Boris Johnson thrown Simon Case under the bus?

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Oh no. Those who had argued Rishi Sunak would spell a new era of Tory calm appear to have been mistaken. This weekend there are fresh reports of scandal during Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister. The Sunday Times reports today that when Sharp was in the final stages of going for the BBC chairmanship late in 2020, he heard that Johnson was having money troubles and put him in touch with his old pal Sam Blyth, a multimillionaire Canadian businessman who is also a distant cousin of the PM. Blyth could offer Johnson access to the quick cash he wanted.

The deal is reported to have been done in the first week of December. Sharp came to Downing Street and talked through the details with Simon Case, the cabinet secretary. Blyth would be the guarantor of an almost million-pound loan for the PM.

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