EXCLUSIVE
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have been accused of debasing ethical standards in public life after they refused to commit to correcting any of the false statements made by Boris Johnson while he has been Prime Minister, Byline Times can reveal.
The journalist and author Peter Oborne and the author and former political advisor Richard Heller wrote to both candidates for the Conservative Party leadership last week, asking them to commit to correcting a long series of false claims made by Johnson in the House of Commons.
Oborne, who has sought to compile every false claim made by Johnson’s Government, urged the two candidates to make a clean break from their predecessor and help to restore public trust in the Government.
“The urgent and overwhelming priority of your premiership is to restore the trust of the British people in their government”, Oborne and Heller wrote.
“Your party has given you both your present chance to lead it only because Boris Johnson destroyed that trust by a total indifference to the truth.
“We are therefore inviting you to commit yourselves as the first step in your government to correcting all the extant false statements put out by Boris Johnson.”
Under the Ministerial Code, ministers are required to correct the parliamentary record on any false statement they have made “at the earliest opportunity”.
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