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June 21, 2022updated 30 Sep 2022 11:27am

Times subscribers revolt over Carrie story spiked for ‘legal reasons’

By Bron Maher

Readers are complaining en masse in The Times’ subscribers-only comment section after revelations the paper spiked an unflattering story about Boris and Carrie Johnson after its initial publication.

Comments criticising The Times on its own articles have received hundreds of up votes from other subscribers.

On Saturday The Times removed an article from later editions that claimed Boris Johnson had attempted to get his then-mistress (now wife) Carrie Symonds installed as chief of staff when he was foreign secretary.

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