UK Prime Minister Boris Johnsonhas assured this Wednesday that he will leave Downing Street “with his head held high” once the deputies of the Conservative Party elect the new leader who will succeed him in office after his resignation.
Regarding the election of the new British head of government, he has specified that it is possible that “he will be elected by an acclaimed majority” shortly, so this could be the last time he appears before the House of Commons as ‘ British premier.
Likewise, hHe has pointed out that the opposition leader, Labor Keir Starmer, has been “significantly less lethal” than other leaders of the opposition party and has recognized that leaving office was not his choice, according to information from the BBC television network.
Nevertheless, he has said he feels “proud” of the initiatives he has put on the table and has warned that any of the candidates to become the next Conservative leader will know how to deal with Starmer, who considers that he will make “Rooney-style” mistakes, a reference to the incident that footballer Wayne Rooney starred in when he sneaked into a wedding drunk in 2016.
In this sense, has asserted that his departure “does not imply the end of the Brexit“and has rejected the idea that Scotland hold a new independence referendum. Instead, she has said, Scots should “focus on political issues like education rather than calling for a new constitutional event that was already held in 2014”. “They already voted and lost,” she has recalled.
Regarding the results of an investigation published on Tuesday by the BBC into alleged war crimes committed by members of the United Kingdom’s Special Air Service (SAS) in Afghanistan, Johnson has refused to comment on the operations of the special forces, but has indicated that “that does not imply that the Government accepts such accusations”.