(MENAFN- Live Mint) In a big claim, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that his security team found a listening device in his private bathroom at the Foreign Office in London. This incident reportedly soon after a meeting he had with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Telegraph said citing his new book.
Johnson, who was serving as the UK's foreign secretary at the time, recalls in his book that Prime Minister Netanyahu , known by his nickname "Bibi," used the bathroom in his "secret annex" during a 2017 meeting.
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In his book- Unleashed, Johnson writes,“Thither Bibi repaired for a while, and it may or may not be a coincidence but I am told that later, when they were doing a regular sweep for bugs, they found a listening device in the thunderbox.”
However, when Telegraph wanted to know more, he said:“I think everything you need to know about that episode is in the book.”
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In his book, Johnson reiterated that he would have won another election if he had not been forced from Downing Street; and he claimed that he broke no rules with lockdown parties and it was a bigger conspiracy against him.
The most controversial section of the book - Unleashed - likely appears toward the conclusion, where Johnson discusses the disclosures about lockdown-violating parties at No. 10, one of several scandals that led to his resignation in June 2023. Johnson was one of over 100 individuals penalized for breaking the restrictions at Downing Street.
However, he writes, as Gaurdian cites,“At the time we believed that these events were in accordance with the rules – and I still think they were.”
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