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Change UK slammed for bringing on Boris Johnson’s sister as a candidate for the European elections
Labour MP Dan Carden tells the Star: ‘It’s laughable that a party calling itself Change UK is so nakedly committed to stopping change at all costs’
Boris Johnson's sister Rachel Johnson (right) and father Stanley Johnson watch him speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party annual conference last year

GAFFE-PRONE centre party Change UK has scuppered its claim to represent a new politics by choosing Boris Johnson’s sister as a candidate for the European elections, Labour MPs have said.

Change UK – The Independent Group announced today that Rachel Johnson would stand for the party in south-west England next month.

Ms Johnson cemented her super-posh credentials by editing The Lady, a women’s magazine popular with aristocrats, where she often wrote about her love of Agas – a brand of luxury cooker.

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