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Boris Johnson has been issued with a county court judgement for an alleged unpaid debt

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  • Boris Johnson has been issued with a county court judgement for allegedly failing to pay a debt.
  • Court records show he was issued with the judgment for a figure of £535.
  • Johnson’s spokesman described the judgement against him as “vexatious and spurious.”
  • The claim relates to an allegation of defamation, the Daily Mail reported.
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Boris Johnson has been issued with a county court judgement for an alleged unpaid debt.

The judgement, revealed by the Private Eye magazine on Wednesday and seen by Insider, shows that the judgement against the UK Prime Minister came last October after failed to pay the debt of £535.

Despite the order being issued more than six months ago, it is rated as an “unsatisfied record,” suggesting that it has not been paif by the prime minister.

Johnson’s Downing Street residence is listed on the court judgement.

It is not clear what the alleged debt relates to, but such judgements are issued when a person or organisation takes action against someone claiming they owe them money and the person does not respond.

However, a spokesman for Johnson said they were “moving at speed to get this vexatious and spurious claim removed,” adding that “the courts do have the power to strike down vexatious claims.”

The Daily Mail reported that the claim came from a woman alleging defamation by the prime minister.

Asked if the public should be worried about the prime minister’s financial situation, a spokesperson replied “you should not be worried, no.”

The judgement posed awkward questions for the prime minister, whose private financial arrangements have been under significant scrutiny in recent months.

The government’s own website for county court judgements for debt advises: “Records of judgments are kept for 6 years unless you pay the full amount within a month – this can make it hard to get credit.”

“If you do owe the money, you should arrange to pay what you can afford.”

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Johnson has reportedly told friends since arriving in Downing Street that his prime ministerial salary of around £160,000 is not enough to sustain his expensive lifestyle.

He recently settled a costly divorce with his ex-wife Marina Wheeler and is understood to support at least four of his children financially.

The UK’s parliamentary watchdog this week announced this week that it was investigating Johnson for a holiday he took to the Caribbean island of Mustique in December 2019 and January 2020, amid confusion over who footed the bill for the £15,000 trip.

He was also the subject of extensive media scrutiny after questions arose over who funded a lavish refurbishment of the Downing Street flat where he lives with his fiancée Carrie Symonds.

Johnson ultimately paid the excess cost of the refurbishment himself, but his former chief aide Dominic Cummings claimed the prime minister had initially sought for a donor to cover the costs.

The Electoral Commission, the UK’s elections watchdog, is investigating whether the refurbishment broke the law after concluding that there were “reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence or offences may have occurred.”

Downing Street also refused to deny that he had asked a Conservative donor to pay for his son’s childcare.

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