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siehe dazu auch: His toxic spell is broken: Boris Johnson trips over his own lies. Dishonesty has been the one constant through Boris Johnson’s career. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Dishonesty has been the one constant in Johnson’s career – in the end the deceit proved too much to bear. Lies and a brazen contempt for the rules powered his rise; lies and a brazen contempt for the rules brought his fall. Which means the political odyssey of Boris Johnson has a curious symmetry. Except that what began as defects in the personality of one man ended as defects in his party and his government, inflicting great damage on the entire country. The lies that proved his undoing are now all too familiar. The last, fatal lie was his claim that he had not been told directly of complaints of sexual misconduct committed by the former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher, a claim rapidly exposed as false in a rare intervention from a former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, Simon McDonald. It turned out that Johnson had indeed been briefed about Pincher, and that once again Johnson had not told the truth.