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Why are we paying for a cabinet minister's libel bill?

Why are we paying for a cabinet minister's libel bill?

Update: 2024-03-07
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Michelle Donelan is Rishi Sunak’s Science Secretary. She has accepted that she libelled an academic. That’s unusual. It’s even more unusual that the taxpayer is paying her libel bill.

Lewis asks, why this has come about? Discover that to some extent, as always, all roads lead to Boris Johnson. We also ask whether we need to look at this through a different lens- whether this weird episode is part of the Conservative Party’s “Islamist” obsession.

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Why are we paying for a cabinet minister's libel bill?

Why are we paying for a cabinet minister's libel bill?

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