Boris Johnson denies Britain is corrupt but isn't sorry about Owen Paterson - The Times

Boris Johnson has been forced into denying that Britain is a corrupt country and said MPs who broke the rules should be investigated and punished.

Speaking at the Cop26 conference in Glasgow, the prime minister repeatedly refused to apologise for his botched attempt to block the suspension of the Conservative MP Owen Paterson, a former cabinet minister, for breaching lobbying rules.

He defended the right of MPs to take second jobs, arguing that they had being doing outside work for hundreds of years and that it ultimately strengthened democracy. “I genuinely believe that the UK is not remotely a corrupt country, nor do I believe that our institutions are corrupt,” he said.

He appeared to criticise Sir Geoffrey Cox, the former attorney-general, for

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