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Boris Johnson's 56th birthday party

• ... that after he attended a birthday party on 19 June 2020 (pictured), Boris Johnson became the first serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to be found to have broken the law?

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Zhang Zhenglang
• Comment: The best time to run this would probably be 19 June, but I recognise that I may have missed the boat on that date.

A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 20:44, 15 June 2024 (UTC).

• Comment not review As this is an article featuring election candidates, it should not appear on the main page until after 4 July, see WP:DYKELECT. TSventon (talk) 21:19, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
• New enough and long enough. QPQ present. This is a unique contribution to DYK as it is three paragraphs and a list; even though one paragraph does not end in an inline citation, I am treating it as a lead-section paragraph. All the list bullet points contain at least one inline citation. The hook fact checks out and is included. Image is OGL-licensed and acceptable for the Main Page. Good to go after 4 July per above. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 04:49, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

• Thank you very much for the review, Sammi! If you've got concerns over the amount of prose in this article, I've expanded the lead with another paragraph. Let me know if you think this has improved things. Thanks, A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 15:32, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Despite what the sources say, I find it hard to believe that in the hundreds of years there have been prime ministers in the UK, not a single one of them before Boris Johnson has ever broken some law. In fact, it only took me a couple of minutes to find in Robert Walpole: In 1712, Walpole was accused of venality and corruption in the matter of two forage contracts for Scotland. Although it was proven that he had retained none of the money, Walpole was pronounced "guilty of a high breach of trust and notorious corruption".[16] He was impeached by the House of Commons and found guilty by the House of Lords; he was then imprisoned in the Tower of London for six months and expelled from Parliament.

@RoySmith: I believe the distinction is that Johnson is the first serving Prime Minister to be found to have broken the law – the Walpole incident that you're describing occurred nine years before he became Prime Minister. A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 22:40, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

@A Thousand Doors and Sammi Brie: I have unpromoted this, becaue I now feel the hook violates WP:DYKHOOKBLP. I recognise that this is a currently-fraught subject, and other promoters might see differently, but I don't intend on promoting this hook. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:42, 17 July 2024 (UTC)