Sleaze Crisis Deepens for U.K.’s Johnson With Watchdog Probe
- Electoral Commission: ‘Reasonable grounds’ to suspect offense
- Premier faces questions over whether he used loan from donors
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing an official investigation into whether he or his party broke election law by failing to declare the funding of works to refurbish his government residence.
The Electoral Commission, which regulates political donations, announced the inquiry amid questions over whether Johnson took an undeclared loan from a political donor to cover the costs of refitting his Downing Street apartment.