Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 16 June 2022

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1. New ‘partygate’ setback for PM

Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser Lord Geidt has quit a day after saying there was a “legitimate question” about whether the prime minister broke ministerial rules over lockdown parties. The resignation is another setback in Johnson’s attempts to move on from the public outcry over “partygate”. When he took up the role last year, Geidt, 60, described any resignation as a “last resort” that “sends a critical signal into the public domain”. The BBC’s political editor, Chris Mason, said it appears there are “more details Geidt is privy to about what has been going on than are currently known about more widely”.

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