article_snippet: Boris Johnson has criticised a controversial Government ruling to stop 430,000 civil servants talking to journalists.
article_snippet: Mr Johnson, a former journalist, told the Daily Mail:
article_snippet: ’ Mr Johnson said Mr Johnson was concerned that there would be a repeat of the post-Leveson ‘
article_snippet: Mr Johnson raised wider questions about historic police investigations, such as those going on into child abuse allegations dating back decades.
article_snippet: ‘One thing I am concerned about is the extent to which police time and resources can be devoted to what you might call policing the past - policing previous police investigations into what may or may not have been criminal offences,’ Mr Johnson said.