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Johnson will publish memoir – but refuses to hand over ministerial diary

Ex-PM spent a year refusing to release his official ministerial diary. Now he’s publishing his own account instead

By Jenna Corderoy and Ruby Lott-Lavigna
Johnson will publish memoir – but refuses to hand over ministerial diary
Boris Johnson addresses the UK as prime minister from a lectern outside Downing Street during the first peak of the Covid pandemic | PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
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Boris Johnson is to release a memoir covering the “momentous” events of his leadership – despite continued refusals from the government to release his official Covid diaries.

HarperCollins will publish the disgraced former prime minister’s memoir – which is likely to be dominated by details of the coronavirus pandemic, in which more than 200,000 people in the UK have so far died.

Yet Number 10 has consistently blocked the release of Johnson’s official ministerial diary covering the period of the pandemic, with the Information Commissioner’s Office now considering an appeal by openDemocracy against the decision to withhold the unvarnished document.

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