The British minister’s decision for Brexit, David Frost, to present your resignation, partly due to the debate on the imposition of new restrictions on the spread of the coronavirus, has finished opening a deep fracture within the Conservative Party And nicked like never before the confidence of the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson between their own ranks.
Frost, according to ‘The Guardian’, had expressed in recent weeks about his concerns about the tax increases and the reimposition of restrictions, and had spoken out against an increase in national insurance to pay for health and social assistance expenses. British concessions during the Brexit negotiations were also a key factor.
For the ‘number two’ of the opposition Labor Party, Angela Rayner, the news reveals “a government immersed in the absolute chaos when the country faces a few weeks of uncertainty “.”Boris Johnson is not valid for the position. We deserve better than these antics, “Rayner posted on Twitter.
In principle, Frost planned to leave his post at the end of January, quietly. However, the leak of his resignation has forced him to advance events. In a letter published Saturday night, Frost stated “disappointed“due to the leakage of his intentions and” under the circumstances, I think it is correct that he is writing to resign with immediate effect. “
In the same letter, Frost expressed his wish for the UK to become a country with “low taxes and light regulations“, an unequivocal sign of the economic impact caused by the pandemic in the United Kingdom, right now immersed in a new wave caused by the omicron variant, which this Saturday already left 10,000 new cases in the country; one in ten new daily infections.
This situation led the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to declare the alertness in the British capital, while this Sunday the Minister of Health, Sajid Javid, told Sky News that the Government has not yet contemplated new restrictions but would be willing to do so “with the data in hand.”
Javid took the opportunity to lament the attitude of the anti-vaccines by saying that “it is impossible to insist more on the damage they are causing“after remembering that nine out of ten new admissions for coronavirus are people who have not received the injection.
“They really have to think about the damage they are doing to society by occupying hospital beds that could have been used for someone with perhaps a heart problem, or perhaps someone who is waiting for surgery,” he lamented.
Meanwhile, there are more leaks that reveal the internal conflict that conservatives are going through. Without going any further, this same Sunday Sky News reports that the head of Culture of the British Government, Nadine Dorries, has been expelled from a chat of deputies on the WhatsApp application for defending Johnson’s work.
“He’s the hero who got Brexit“Dorries wrote before being expelled from the group by the deputy and now deputy to the leadership of the coronavirus recovery group, Steve Baker.”Now it is OK“Baker wrote after expelling her.
Johnson thus ends an unfortunate week, also marked by the defeat of this Thursday in the local elections in the county of North Shropshire, a seat the Conservatives had preserved for almost two centuries.
Victory fell on Helen Morgan, a Liberal Democratic candidate, who has not only overturned the more than 20,000 votes difference that led the Conservatives to victory in previous elections, but has also taken 4,000 votes away from the Tory candidate, Neil Shastri-Hurst (17,957 vs. at 12,032).
The off-calendar elections were also called after the former occupant of the seat, the former Minister for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson, will resign in the middle of a corruption scandal.
Johnson’s weakness was the predominant theme in Morgan’s triumphant speech. “The party is over“He has proclaimed to his supporters, referring to yet another scandal that has haunted the prime minister in recent days: a controversial meeting with his employees during the height of restrictions that prevented personal meetings.
From the Conservative party, the defeat was received with a different level of alarm. Although the president of the party, Oliver Dowden, has recognized that the result is “a beating and a message loud and clear although it is not a momentous event, “Conservative MP Roger Gale warned that Johnson is completely unprotected right now:”One more and it’s gone. He is asking for the last round, because this election has been a referendum on his performance, “Gale told BBC Radio 4.
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