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UK's PM sorry for partygate scandal as calls to quit mount

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised Wednesday (January 12) for attending a garden party during Britain’s first coronavirus lockdown, but brushed aside opposition demands that he resign for breaching the rules his own government had imposed on the nation.

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