#ResignBorisJohnson trends on Twitter after he was found to have misled parliament

#ResignBorisJohnson

Boris Johnson is facing calls to resign as prime minister after a court order found him to have misled parliament over the publication of Covid-19 contracts. With his government riddled with allegations of cronyism over the manner in which they've allocated contracts to firms during the pandemic, the prime minister has insisted that all contracts were "on the record". However, the High Court on Friday stated that 100 contract out of 708 relevant ones had not been published. The government, the order has said, "acted unlawfully" in doing so. The order, by judge Mr Justice Chamberlain says: “The Defendant has published 608 out of 708 relevant contracts for supplies and services relating to COVID-19 awarded on or before 7 October 2020. "In some or all of these cases, the Defendant acted unlawfully by failing to publish the contracts within the period set out in the Crown Commercial Service’s Publication of Central Government Tenders and Contracts: Central Government Transparency Guidance Note (November 2017)."