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Boris Johnson should resign if he knowingly misled parliament about the lockdown-busting party in the Downing Street garden, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab told Good Morning Britain. Dominic Cummings, the PM’s former top aide, says he is prepared to “swear under oath” that he talked to Johnson about the “bring your own booze” event before it took place, a claim No 10 has denied. The UK has sent “troops and hi-tech weapons” to Ukraine, says the Mail, in a bid to thwart a feared Russian invasion. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warned MPs that a “very, very bloody war” could be imminent. Police had to break up a hotel drinking session involving England and Australia cricketers at 6am yesterday morning. The players, still in their whites after the final game of the Ashes, were told they were being “too loud” and ordered to go to bed.