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Boris Johnson on the Newsnight scandal.
By New Statesman Published 12 November 2012 8:22
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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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.