Pork pies, Pincher and Partygate: How well can you remember every Boris Johnson scandal?

Not even sure he can remember all of them


“I’ve got a brilliant new strategy which is to make so many gaffes, that no one knows what to concentrate on,” Boris Johnson proudly announced in 2006. It almost worked.

For three years, he’s ripped up the rulebook, ignored democratic norms and broken the law in a chaotic premiership that ended pitifully last Thursday. From illegally proroguing parliament, trying to force his MPs to overturn a fellow Tories’ suspension and the endless denials of party after party in No.10, Boris Johnson has hopped from crisis to crisis ducking and diving until finally the Chris Pincher scandal left him without a leg to stand on.

But how well do you remember each scandal? Do you know your “pork pie plot” from your Operation Red Meat? Why did he try and get a Tory donor to pay for a £110,000 makeover of his flat and who on earth was Owen Paterson? Answer this quiz to test your BoJo political knowledge. Channel your inner Nadine Dorries, and find out how well you know Boris and all his many scandals:

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