UK Watchdog to Probe Funding of Boris Johnson’s Flat Renovation
The Electoral Commission said there were “reasonable grounds” to suspect an offence had been committed.
Johnson came under pressure to explain how the expensive refurbishment was paid for, after his former chief advisor Dominic Cummings said Johnson had planned to “have donors secretly pay for the renovation.”
Dominic Cummings, former chief advisor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, leaves his home in London on March 17, 2021. (Hollie Adams/Getty Images)
In a blog post published on April 23, Cummings said he told the prime minister that he thought the plans “were unethical, foolish, possibly illegal” and refused to help organise these payments. As a result, he said, Johnson stopped speaking to him about this matter in 2020.