UK PM candidate Johnson to face court over Brexit claims

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UK PM candidate Johnson to face court over Brexit claims
Michael Holden

LONDON (Reuters) - Boris Johnson, the favorite to replace Theresa May as British prime minister, must appear in court over allegations he lied about Brexit by stating Britain would be 350 million pounds a week better off outside the EU, a judge ruled on Wednesday.

The figure, famously emblazoned on a campaign bus, was a central and controversial part of the Leave campaign’s successful “take back control” message ahead of the 2016 Brexit referendum.

Opponents argued that it was deliberately misleading and it became symbolic of the divisions caused by the referendum, which saw Britons vote by 52%-48% to leave the European Union.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-johnson/uk-pm-candidate-johnson-to-face-court-over-brexit-claims-idUSKCN1SZ14L

So will this sink Johnson? That is what some of the chatter is.

[Fishrrman]

"So will this sink Johnson? That is what some of the chatter is."

In the USA, that would be "Constitutionally-protected political speech".
But of course, there's no First Amendment over there.

I think the arrest will do for Mr. Johnson what the democrat-communists' hounding of the president is doing for Mr. Trump -- that is to say, it will increase (not diminish) his political capital.

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