While British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (57) is touring India, MPs in Westminster are rehearsing the uprising!
Parliamentarians have set up a committee of inquiry to find out whether Johnson lied to the House of Commons about his illegal corona parties.
It’s a serious setback for “Party” Boris!
▶︎ The vote was a riot with announcement, because: By morning Johnson had been pressuring Tory MPs to block the opposition Labor Party’s motion – but they were too mad at their PM and insisted on a committee of inquiry. “The vote will be free for all Conservative MPs,” Johnson’s chief cheerleader Chris Pincher said sheepishly before the parliamentary session.
In the House of Commons, Tory MPs then settled accounts with Johnson. “Every day I see rules being broken in this place and it only strengthens my belief that we must make it clear that dishonesty, inaction and the misleading of Parliament will not be tolerated by anyone,” rumbled Anthony Mangnall. Ex-Brexit Minister Steve Baker was even clearer: “The prime minister should be gone by now.”
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Ex-Brexit Minister Steve Baker has called for Johnson’s resignation in ParliamentPhoto: PRU / AFP
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Johnson’s tactic of simply sitting out the party scandal: obviously failed. Because although the Ukraine war initially pushed the topic aside, a police fine made the headlines. The Prime Minister had to pay a paltry £50 (around €60) for having his staff celebrate him with a birthday cake in the middle of lockdown.
The birthday bash is just one of many parties celebrated at Downing Street while the rest of the country was not even allowed to visit his grandparents. Johnson’s employees celebrated, among other things, on the eve of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth’s (96) husband Prince Philip († 99) in April last year.
Johnson had repeatedly asserted that the rules had always been followed. It later emerged that the premier himself had attended several parties.
According to a YouGov survey, around 80 percent of Britons are clear: their prime minister is a liar. According to the poll, as many as 61 percent of Tory voters believe Johnson has duped Parliament. Only eight percent of voters believe his words.
If the parliamentary committee now comes to the conclusion that Johnson has lied to the people’s representatives, things are likely to get tight for him. Knowingly misleading Parliament is a violation of the government’s code of conduct – and grounds for resignation.
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