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the lie kills the british prime minister

The lie has accompanied Boris Johnson for much of his journalistic and political career and now it has finally caught up with him: lies about Brexit, lies about Downing Street parties, lies about click caser… The Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has announced that he will leave office less than three years after his landslide election victory, largely due to his unique and charismatic political leadership and to the culmination of that British nightmare called Brexit, the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union. He will remain in office until the Conservative Party elects a new leader and prime minister. There is no date yet. “I am sad to leave the best job in the world,” he said in his farewell statement at the iconic door of 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the UK prime ministers.

Boris Johnson replaced his predecessor Theresa May, devoured by Brexit, and then revalidated his mandate at the polls. But his two years and 349 days in 10 Downing Street they are going to convert who I wanted to be when I was little”The king of the world” in one of the most ephemeral British prime ministers since 1900. And without a doubt, also one of the most amusing, frivolous, mocking and eccentric representatives of a conservative political class raised in the country’s elite schools that has always believed they had the right to be above the norm, as his former colleague, the journalist Simon Kuper, recounted in the book Chums (colleagues) which is subtitled: How a small caste of Oxford Tories took over the UK.

Ya basta

“Ya basta” (“enough is enough”) His ministers and co-religionists have told him after the latest scandal: the revelations about the sexual behavior of Chris Pincher, former number two of the conservative parliamentary group, whom Johnson supported despite knowing his background. Johnson reacted once again as in previous cases. He first denied through his spokesman that he knew of Pinche’s history and then admitted that he was.

It is the same strategy that he used to deal with Partygate, the parties in the prime minister’s office against the rules that his own government had imposed to fight the pandemic. This case led him to suffer a motion of censure -presented by members of his own party. He survived but was touched. 41% of the members of his parliamentary group voted against his continuity. Many of them had obtained their seats thanks to Johnson’s electoral pull. The latest lie about the Pincher case has been the straw that broke the camel’s back of the patience of his closest collaborators. The cascade of resignations in his Government have ended up leaving him alone, despite his resistance to giving up and resigning.

a landslide victory

The Conservative Party led by Johnson achieved an absolute majority in the December 2019 elections, its best result in decades. The comfortable victory confirmed him in style as prime minister after having replaced Theresa May months before (in July 2019) to pilot the consummation of Brexit. Johnson had been chosen for it by the affiliates of the Conservative Party; He was then the candidate of those who were betting on a hard Brexit, the one who threatened to leave the European club without an agreement, by force.

the party gate

The Pincher case has broken out when Johnson had not yet recovered from the Partygate. The prime minister and his collaborators did not respect the restrictions during the confinement that he himself imposed, something that caused stupor and indignation among the population. The rejection of his figure and his management was staged with the boos he received during the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee events.

Initially, the prime minister denied participation in the controversial parties. But with the successive appearance of compromising photos and details, he was finally forced to admit his mistake and apologize. The pressure and requests for resignation have been increasing since the publication -in May- of the official’s full report Sue Gray on the investigation of prohibited celebrations. It called for accountability from the prime minister. He repeated on several occasions that he would not resign.

Near to death

The pandemic, as in the rest of the world, has marked the steps in the last two and a half years. At first, he did not take the threat seriously and even flirted with the idea that the best remedy against the pandemic was to let the entire population become infected. But everything changed when he suffered the coronavirus in his own flesh. Johnson was admitted to the ICU for coronavirus in April 2020, in one of the worst moments of the health crisis. He said that he was “about to die” and showed his gratitude to the health workers who “saved his life”.

Irreverent and loud

The blond-haired Tory with a reputation for eccentricity and loudmouth reached the pinnacle of political power. He was the same one who, when he was a child, was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up and answered “the king of the world”. Before becoming prime minister, he had been foreign minister with Theresa May (2016-2018) and Mayor of London (2008-2016), a position with which he achieved great popularity. In his political ascent, he decided to ride the anti-European wave during a campaign, that of Brexit, plagued, by the way, with quite a few false data about the cost that membership of the European Union had for the United Kingdom.

The Eton and Oxford Club

Trained in classical letters in the elitist and exclusive classrooms of Eton y Oxford, the extravagant Boris has always been accompanied by controversy. He was fired from his first job as a journalist in The Times for a fake date Later, as correspondent in Brussels (1989-1994) for The Daily Telegraph, became known for fanning the flame of euroscepticism with his devastating chronicles and his antipathy towards European institutions. He became former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s favorite journalist.

Johnson had been a student at the European School in Brussels before going to the most elite school in the United Kingdom -Eton- and the University of Oxford. The latter centers in which he would coincide in an exclusive club, Bullingdon, with another student who was also going to enter the history of the United Kingdom: David Cameron, who fell into disgrace after calling the referendum on Brexit. That divorce from the European Union, on the contrary, would consecrate Boris Johnson’s rise to power.

During that time in Downing Street, the prime minister (57 years old) has married his partner Carrie Symonds (34 years old) and has had two children with her. The first, Wilfred, was born in late 2020. The second, a girl (Romy Iris Charlotte), in December 2021. He has five other children.

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