After receiving a report about the Partygate scandal in which he was involved for organizing parties at government headquarters during the Covid-19 pandemic, Johnson stepped aside.
After leaving office as British Prime Minister, This Friday Boris Johnson confirmed that he will leave Parliament permanently and resign from his seat as deputy. Although he accused that he was “undemocratically expelled”, his decision came after a report from the party gatethe scandal in which he was involved for organize parties at the seat of government during the strict quarantine due to the pandemic COVID-19.
As in 2022, Johnson leaves office surrounded by scandals. He expremier targeted the opposition and pointed out that they tried to throw him out: “It is very sad to leave the Parliament, at least for now. But mostly I’m perplexed and horrified at being undemocratically expelled. I’m being kicked out by a small handful of people, no evidence to support their claimsand without the approval even of the members of the Conservative Partyand much less of the electorate in general,” he said in a statement to which the AFP and Euronews agencies had access.
According to argues Johnsonmost of the members of the British Parliament had already spoken out against him before seeing any evidence: “Most of the committee members, especially the chairman, already they had made deeply damaging comments about my guilt even before they had seen the evidence. In retrospect, he was naive and trusting for my part to think that these procedures could be remotely useful or fair,” he defended himself.
A Parliamentary commission investigates whether he intentionally lied to Parliament when he stated that the rules against COVID-19 during the parties in their offices in the confinements of 2020 and 2021. However, Johnson defended himself by saying: “I still They didn’t provide a single piece of evidence that I misled the Commons knowingly or recklessly”.
The former Prime Minister’s resignation from his seat as Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip sparked a new call for partial elections to define who will replace him in office.
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