The former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has resigned this Friday to his seat in the British Parliament in an unexpected move. She has announced it after receiving the result of the investigation against him for allegedly lying to the Chamber in the ‘Partygate’ scandal and that it points out that deliberately misled to the deputies affirming that the sanitary regulations were complied with in the repeated parties held in Downing Street during the pandemic. The former prime minister has decided to resign before the committee resolution forced him to resign from his seat, which will lead to early elections in your constituency.
Johnson has accused the chair of the committee, Labor Harriet Harmann, of making this decision without sufficient evidence to prove it. “His purpose of his from the beginning has been to blame me, regardless of the facts & rdquor ;, the former ‘premier’ assured in a statement. “Most of the committee members—especially the chairwoman—had already shown prejudices about my guilt even before seeing the evidence”. In case of not having resigned, the recommendation of the committee of suspend you for a period of more than 10 days would have predictably led to holding early elections in his constituency anyway.
Lies to Parliament
In an appearance before the committee last March, Johnson admitted to lying to Parliament, although he insisted that he didn’t do it on purpose. At that time, the former prime minister maintained that the health regulations were complied with and that the meetings in Downing Street were “essentials & rdquor;, as they were work related. Despite maintaining that at no time has he been untrue in his justification for the parties, Johnson has admitted that the meetings in Downing Street they were not “perfect & rdquor;.
The result of the investigation, which according to the former prime minister has “embarrassed” and “horrified”is added to other scandals such as new information about another possible violation of the rules of the confinement at his Checkers residence during the pandemic and the tug of war with the Government of Rishi Sunak over the delivery of his WhatsApp messages to the independent commission investigating the management of covid-19 in the United Kingdom.
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Johnson has taken advantage of the statement to openly criticize Sunak, former Minister of Economy in his own Executive. “When I left office last year, the government was alone a handful of points behind in the polls [del Partido Laborista]. This gap has now greatly expanded”. Criticism of Sunak for not having fulfilled the Brexit promises -which made Johnson win with an overwhelming majority in 2019- have been added, according to the former prime minister, to other errors such as the inability to find a response to the housing crisis or the failure to reach a free trade agreement with the United States.
The resignation has delved deeper into the gap between Johnson’s defenders and his detractors within the Conservative Party and has put Sunak in a new bind, who will have to deal with a time bomb within his own formation. The former prime minister has openly attacked some of the Conservative MPs. I’m not the only one who thinks there’s a Witch hunt underway to exact revenge on Brexit and ultimately reverse the result of the 2016 referendum”. Johnson’s resignation marks another chapter in the battle within the ‘Tory’ formation, although it certainly won’t be the last.