Book calls PM an ‘inveterate liar’
Boris Johnson is “an unrepentant and inveterate liar” who feels he is not subject to the same rules as others, according to a former French ambassador to the UK’s new book. In
Goodbye Britannia, Sylvie Bermann writes that Johnson uses “lies to embellish reality, as a game and as instrument of power”. The former ambassador to the UK from 2014 to 2017 also predicts that Johnson will seek to use Covid to conceal the true economic cost of Brexit on the UK economy.
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Clegg defends Facebook
Nick Clegg has said the Australian government and press drove Facebook to block news from the feeds of users down under. Offering what he describes as “the real story” behind the news ban in Australia, he blamed the fallout on the government and publishers rather than his employers. However, after users in Australia were denied access to news last week, the vice-president of global affairs for the social media giant admitted that Facebook “erred on the side of over-enforcement”.