Can Boris Johnson resist scandals?

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, December 15, 2021. AP - Tolga Akmen

By: Sébastien Duhamel Follow

1 min

He was one of the main architects of Brexit: Boris Johnson, " 

Bojo

 " for close friends.

Current tenant of 10 Downing Street, but for how long, some wonder?

It must be said that the slope is becoming very slippery for the British Prime Minister.

As Jacques Chirac said, "

 shit, it always flies in a squadron 

".

Boris Johnson now knows something about it. 

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Its response to the covid crisis criticized and abused by the oppositions but, above all, a series of scandals which inexorably accumulate. After the case of the renovation of his private apartment, for which he was recently pinned again by the Electoral Commission, after the revelations about an evening organized by his team in December 2020 when the country was in full confinement, he there is now this new photo which embarrasses. Taken in May 2020 in the garden of his residence. We see Boris Johnson tasting a glass of wine, with about fifteen present. And the problem is that his spokesperson says it was a working meeting. The images, however, leave room for doubt.

So after all this and the resulting crisis of confidence, can the British Prime Minister weather the storm?

To discuss it

: 

Sophie Loussouarn

, specialist in UK politics and economics, senior lecturer at the University of Picardy.

Author of " 

David Cameron: a Curator of the Twenty-first Century

 ", Séguier editions

Aurélien Antoine

, University professor, founder of the Brexit Observatory author of the book "Brexit, an English history" Dalloz editions

Alex Taylor

, European journalist

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