Boris Johnson cleared of wrongdoing over £15,000 Mustique holiday
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Boris Johnson has been cleared of wrongdoing over his failure to properly declare a 2019 holiday to the Caribbean island of Mustique after a committee of MPs overruled the judgment of the independent commissioner on standards.
The prime minister was found guilty of breaking the rules governing MPs’ declarations by Kathryn Stone, the parliamentary commissioner for standards.
However, the MPs’ committee on standards overruled Stone to clear Johnson over his £15,000 stay in a villa.
Johnson and Carrie Symonds, his fiancée at the time, travelled to Mustique at the end of 2019 for a holiday following the December election. Their accommodation was paid for by David Ross, a multimillionaire Tory donor and co-founder of the Carphone Warehouse.
In its findings released today, the committee on