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Questions have been raised about who is paying for the refurbishments at Downing Street. A former Conservative attorney general has described him as a  vacuum of integrity over the flat renovations. Boris Johnson has faced unprecedented pressure from Brexit and the coronavirus outbreak since he became British prime minister in 2019. But he is again under scrutiny about revelations of lavish spending on his official apartment. Questions about who paid for the Downing Street refurbishment have focused opposition attacks on the Conservative prime minister s long history of mendacity, and his casual approach to ethics in public and private life. While Johnson looks to political heroes such as Winston Churchill, portraying himself as a man of destiny who got Brexit done , former Conservative attorney general Dominic Grieve described him as a vacuum of integrity over the flat revamp.

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