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Boris Johnson on the Newsnight scandal.

By New Statesman Published 12 November 2012 8:22
Mayor of London Boris Johnson. Photograph: Getty Images.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson gestures while speaking at Pimlico Academy in London. Photograph: Getty Images.

Chris Patten should make a penitential pilgrimage to McAlpine’s Italian B&B, on his knees and scourging himself with a copy of the BBC charter.

Boris Johnson weighs in on the Newsnight scandal.

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Tue, 2012-11-13 00:34 — Lucidus (not verified)

Johnson writes, "This tragedy is not about the BBC; it is about the smearing of an innocent man."

No the tragedy is the abuse of children and that the perpetrators got away with it for years.

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