London: Boris Johnson is facing a political crisis after his former chief adviser accused the British Prime Minister of unethical behaviour and asking for a leak inquiry to end because it might implicate a friend of his fiancee.

In an incendiary attack, Dominic Cummings – a key force behind Brexit and Johnson’s thumping 2019 election win – claimed in a blog post that his former boss had behaved unethically since moving into Downing Street, and offered to testify about the allegations under oath.


He also slammed Johnson and his office for falling “far below the standards of competence and integrity the country deserves”.


“The Prime Minister stopped speaking to me about this matter in 2020 as I told him I thought his [suggestion] to have donors secretly pay for the renovation were unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended,” Cummings said.

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