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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former ethics adviser said on Friday he resigned his post because he “could not be a party to advising on any potential law-breaking”. In a letter published by Sky News, Christopher Geidt, the second ethics adviser to quit under Johnson in two years, said he wanted to clear up the “confusion” about the precise cause of his decision, which the British prime minister said was connected to advice on trade tariffs. “Emphasis on the steel tariffs question is a distraction,” Geidt said in the letter. “It was simply one example of what might y…