‘Partygate’: Johnson rules out resigning but the shadow of the motion of censure hangs over him

Boris Johnson has refused to resign over the party scandal held in Downing Street during the pandemic and has called to wait for the result of the investigations.

The British Prime Minister appeared today at the control session in the House of Commons under strong pressure to resign from office.

Despite the controversy generated by the ‘partygate’, as the country’s media have called the latest scandals involving Downing Street, the ‘premier’ has refused to resign. This is what I have stated after a question from the Liberal Democrat MP Wendy Chamberlain, who has wondered if it is not “time” for him to leave.

For his part, the leader of the Labor opposition, Keir Starmer, has accused Boris Johnson of being “incapable of offering the leadership” that the country needs and described as “incredible excuses” that he has given about whether or not he was aware of the parties. Starmer added that he couldn’t expect the British public to think he didn’t know it was a party when there were “bottles (of wine) and plates of sandwiches”.

A group of ‘tories’ meets to debate a possible motion of censure

Also, this morning we learned that a group of prominent ‘tories’, who represent the former seats of the so-called destruction of the ‘red wall’ in the 2019 elections, met this Tuesday in the office of the Conservative deputy for Rutland and Melton, Alicia Kearns, for argue about the future of the prime minister of the United Kingdom.

The Conservatives who destroyed the so-called ‘red wall’ – constituencies in the Midlands, North England and North East Wales that have been historically won by the Labor Party – in the 2019 general election that gave Johnson the winner, have held an apparently secret meeting in an operation that has been called the ‘Pork Pie Plot’.

According to the English newspaper ‘The Telegraph’, several of these parliamentarians would have discussed sending letters of censorship to the president of the 1922 Committee, Graham Brady, who has the power to challenge conservative power and resolve conflicts that may arise between ‘tories’.

Johnson would be invited to leave by the ‘tories’ themselves, although for this 15% of parliamentarians would have to be in favor

In this sense, Johnson would be invited to leave by the ‘tories’ themselves in a parliamentary action that is traditionally known as the visit of “the men in gray suits”, although for this the 15% of the ‘Tories’ parliamentarians would have to be in favor, that is, at least 54 of the 360 ​​conservative deputies in the Chamber.

“I don’t buy the idea that 20 letters have come in. If the 2019 admission could organize that without being misinformed and stabbing each other in the back, it would be a miracle,” a Conservative source told the English newspaper.

The Prime Minister speaks of “work” meetings and not parties

The prime minister has asked repeatedly apologized for these meetings and has gone so far as to say that he thought they were work appointments, despite the fact that the attendees had brought drinks.

Johnson participated in a celebration in May 2020 in Downing Street with around 40 more people, although this is not the only party he has attended during the coronavirus pandemic coronavirus.

The staff of the Government Headquarters also celebrated social gatherings where wine and beer were consumed every Friday during the health crisis, despite the different restrictions in force at all times, as revealed last Saturday by the newspaper ‘Daily Mirror’.

The events, described in the press as ‘wine fridays‘, They were automatically programmed in the agendas of fifty employees from the prime minister’s office, sometimes lasting until midnight.

Likewise, just a few days ago we learned that Johnson’s cabinet held two farewell parties that lasted until dawn on April 16, 2021, despite the restrictions and the national mourning established for deathand, a week before, of the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II.