Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 20 March 2022

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1. PM compared Ukrainian struggle to Brexit

Boris Johnson is under fire for comparing the struggle of Ukrainians to people in Britain voting for Brexit. In a speech to the Conservative Party's spring conference, the PM said Britons, like Ukrainians, had the instinct “to choose freedom” and cited the 2016 vote to leave the EU as a “recent example”. Tory peer Lord Barwell said voting in a referendum was not "in any way comparable with risking your life" in a war. Guy Verhofstadt, who led the European parliament in Brexit negotiations, described the comments as “insane”.

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