All eyes are on him: the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. has already resigned from office. But he will not leave it imminently. Johnson could remain in office until the fall, long enough to give rise to new controversies. Because if there is something in which he has not skimped, it is in that, in being involved in critical situations.
Without going any further, the one that stars this Thursday, the day on which the pressure on her figure has exploded with the resignation of up to 57 positions of his executive in the last hours. Six correspond to members of the Council of Ministers, 22 secretaries of State, 22 parliamentary secretaries, four trade envoys and three vice presidents of the Conservative Party. Just 16 days away from reaching the three years as prime ministerJohnson’s would be one of the shortest stays in Downing Street since 1900.
1. The lie behind Pincher’s accusations of harassment
The trigger: one of his controversial lies. The one that tried to justify the election of Chris Pincher, appointed as deputy coordinator of the Conservative Party parliamentary group despite the accusations of harassment against him. Downing Street argued that Johnson was unaware of these complaints. Lie. The prime minister finally admitted that he did know about the accusations and apologized.
It was late. Finance and health ministers Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid resigned within hours, triggering a wave of resignations. The message from the outgoing senior officials revolved around a loss of confidence in Johnson.
2. ‘Partygate’
However, that confidence was already hanging by a thread by the controversial parties in which the prime minister participated in full confinement. The case known as the ‘Partygate’ drew a double yardstick in the hardest moments.
The prime minister initially denied having incurred in irregularities, but his version was modulated by contrasted facts. And of photographs, those of Jonson at those parties with a glass in hand. an official report questioned the government’s actions and Scotland Yard ended up imposing dozens of fines to attendees to the controversial parties, including Johnson himself.
3. Pandemic management
The management of the pandemic by the British Executive also aroused some controversy. Initially, the prime minister suggested a strategy that practically implied assuming coexistence with the virusbut his admission to the intensive care unit was a turning point.
A new Johnson emerged from the hospital, a supporter of comparable confinement measures to those of other neighboring countries, but its strategy has ended up tarnished by the scant commitment of the members of the Government with the policies that it demanded for the citizenry as a whole. It is worth remembering the controversy over the lack of protective equipment (PPE) in British hospitals.
4. The controversial reform of his apartment
If there is something that went well in the United Kingdom in a pandemic, it was its vaccination campaign. However, the popularity of this achievement was overshadowed by the controversy refurbishment of the prime minister’s official flat British for not clarifying how he paid for it.
Doubts about the reform of the official apartment jumped at the end of April, when Johnson’s former super adviser and Brexit ideologue, Dominic Cummingsaccused the prime minister in an incendiary message of having sought in 2020 that “donors paid in secret” the works and claimed to have warned him then that this would be “probably illegal”. The prime ministers receive by law up to 30,000 pounds (34,500 euros) to leave the official Downing Street residence to their liking. However, the media speculate that the reform undertaken by Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, rose well above that amount.According to the tabloid “Daily Mail”, the couple paid an additional 58,000 pounds (66,000 euros).
Finally, the British electoral commission fined the Conservatives £17,800 for not correctly reporting a donation they had received to pay for it, RTVE collects.
5. Defending the indefensible: the case of Paterson
A few months earlier, in October 2021the parliamentary standards commission found Conservative MP Owen Paterson guilty of having broken the code of conduct by having used his position to benefit two companies for which he worked as a consultant. He recommended suspension of him.
Despite this, the Executive tried to reform the current regulatory system to block its suspension. Failed attempt. He eventually had to back down in the face of rejection within his own parliamentary ranks and from opposition parties. On November 4, 2021, the conservative Owen Paterson announced his resignation as deputy, but doubts about the executive honorability They were already planted.
6. Criticism from your former adviser
To the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnsonhe was showered with criticism about the pandemic management. And they did it from within their team and live. Dominic Cummings, a former adviser, assured in an interview with the BBC that Johnson prioritized his political interests over people’s lives. According to Cummings, the conservative leader was reluctant to intensify restrictions to contain the spread of the virus and decree the second confinement on the grounds that those who died were “essentially those over 80 years of age.”
His former adviser assured that in a mobile message, Johnson even admitted that “he did not swallow all this of the NHS saturation -public health system-” and that the prime minister was concerned about not destroying the national economy.
7. Tory sex scandals
Pincher’s has not been an isolated case. The British Executive has led the resignation of two legislators for sexual scandals. The conservative legislator imran ahmad Khan left his post after being found guilty of having sexually abused a 15 year old boy, according to RTVE. Secondly, Neil Parish, another Conservative lawmaker, resigned after admitting he saw porn on your phone in the House of Commons twice.
8. The nonsense about the European Union
Johnson’s lies go beyond denying the celebration of illegal parties, they have also touched european issues. An example, the affirmation that the 10 million pounds sent by his country were destined for subsidize bullfights in Spain. Some statements commented by Carlos Segovia, deputy director of the newspaper ‘El Mundo’, who was his partner as a correspondent in Brussels when he was a journalist.
9. The public row with his wife
On the verge of taking office as prime minister, Boris Johnson grabbed the headlines about a controversial discussion that he would have had with his wife, as published ElEspañol and picked up laSexta in this video.
The aforementioned medium explains that the police came to the house of the couple after the telephone complaints of the neighbors who warned of a raised conversation.
Source: Lasexta
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