Owen Paterson affair shows senior Tories’ ominous contempt for rules, says Rebecca McQuillan

IS it as bad as it looks? We’ve had to ask that question a lot since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister. Suspending parliament, pledging to break international law, rejecting independent reports on ministerial wrongdoing: each time Boris Johnson ignores the rules, the response of a thinking person is naturally to ask: what’s really going on here?

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