“The job of a prime minister in difficult circumstances, when you have received a colossal mandate, is to move forward and that is what I am going to do,” Johnson said during the weekly question session in the House of Commons.
Boris Johnson lost the support of his key ministers, Health, Sajid Javidand Finance, Rishi Sunak, in what appeared to be a coordinated move to deliver a fatal blow to the premier. He was followed by a dozen other members of the government, of lower rank, in a bloodletting that continued on Wednesday with three new withdrawals, which now add up to thirty.
This noon, the former Minister of Health told the Parliament that “enough is enough” and asked cabinet ministers to consider resigning to help him oust Johnson as UK prime minister.
“I have concluded that the problem starts at the top and I think that is not going to change. And that means that we are the ones who have a position of responsibility to make that change,” said Javid.
At the same time, Michael Goveone of the most important ministers of the British Executive and close to Boris Johnson, also requested his resignation during a meeting today, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.
nadhim zahawiwho yesterday accepted the post of finance minister to replace Sunak, is among a delegation that went to Downing Street to also ask for his resignation, according to the BBC.
Boris Johnson’s integrity questioned
The Secretary of State for Children and the Family, Will Fifteenresigned stating “he had no other option” after having transmitted in the media information provided by Johnson’s office “which turned out to be inaccurate”.
The assistant to the Secretary of State for Transport, Laura Trotresigned considering that confidence in the government has been “lost”.
And the Secretary of State for Education, robin walkerregretted upon resigning that the government’s “great achievements” have been “overshadowed by errors and integrity issues.”
Increasingly weakened, but clinging to command of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson appears in the afternoon before the so-called “liaison committee“, formed by the presidents of the different parliamentary commissions and in charge of examining the work of the government.
Among them are some of his staunchest detractors within his Conservative Party.
A sexual scandal, the last straw
The resignations of Javid and Sunak, two heavyweights of the executive and the party, took place hours after Boris Johnson apologized for the umpteenth time, acknowledging that he made a “mistake” by appointing Chris Pincher, responsible conservative who resigned last week for having groped, while intoxicated, two men, one of them a deputy.
Having claimed otherwise, Downing Street acknowledged on Tuesday that the prime minister had been informed of earlier allegations against Pincher in 2019 but had “forgotten” them.
The resignation of Sunak, 42 years old and of Indian origin, takes place in a difficult economic context, with the skyrocketing cost of living in the United Kingdom and with accusations against the executive of not doing enough to help families who cannot make ends meet.
From the so-called “party-gate“, the scandal over the parties organized in Downing Street that violated the anticovid rules in 2020 and 2021, to the irregular financing of the luxurious reform of his official residence, going through accusations of cronyism and finger designations, the scandals do not stop growing in the UK around Boris Johnson.
Champion of the legislative elections of December 2019, when he achieved the most important conservative majority in decades thanks to the promise of carrying out the Brexitthe prime minister is now plummeting in the polls.
According to polls, a majority of Britons consider it a “liar“.
The prime minister survived in early June a confidence vote launched by Conservative Party rebels in an attempt to remove him from power.
Supported by 211 of his 359 legislators, he saved the post but the 148 votes against him made it clear that discontent among his ranks continues to grow.
The rules of the party establish that this procedure cannot be repeated during the remainder of the year, but many within it are already demanding a change to try again a maneuver against Boris Johnson.
Source: Ambito
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