UK PM Acted Unwisely Over Home Refurbishment but No Conflict of Interest, Report Says

UK PM Acted Unwisely Over Home Refurbishment but No Conflict of Interest, Report Says
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks with his Hungarian counterpart at Downing Street in London on May 28, 2021. Leon Neal/Pool via Reuters
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LONDON—British Prime Minister Boris Johnson “unwisely” allowed a refurbishment of his residence to proceed without more rigorous consideration of how it would be funded but did not break the ministerial code of conduct, an official report said on Friday.

Johnson has in recent weeks faced intense scrutiny over how the refurbishment, estimated in some media reports to have run into hundreds of thousands of pounds, had been financed.