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Tories rocked by controversies as election campaign begins
Tory MPs Alun Cairns, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Andrew Bridgen and candidate Francesca O’Brien have set the party on a disastrous course
Boris Johnson walks through No 10 after dissolving Parliament
THE first day of Boris Johnson’s general election campaign today was rocked by controversies and a Cabinet resignation before the morning was over.
The PM visited Buckingham Palace where the Queen agreed to dissolve Parliament ahead of the December 12 general election.
But Mr Johnson’s subsequent speech outside Downing Street was delayed by Alun Cairns’s resignation as Welsh Secretary.
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