UK Boris Johnson Commits To Bring New Coronavirus Restrictions To Parliament
"Where is Boris?" Asks at this point 'The Spectator', the magazine that the tormented British prime minister directed at the time.
"What happened to that effervescent leader who achieved an absolute majority just nine months ago?"
the conservatives question, who begin to distrust him and to even consider if the hour has arrived to look for a replacement to him (with the secretary of the Treasury
Rishi Sunak
scoring ever higher in the stakes).
Far, far away is that defiant claim -
"Get Brexit done"
- with which Boris Johnson emerged a year ago from the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, ready to crush
Jeremy Corbyn
at the polls and open a new chapter in history from United Kingdom.
The pandemic has dealt him a double blow, personal and political.
The "premier" appears these days in the virtual conclave of the "tories" without a winning slogan and without a clear purpose, beyond surviving this premature winter.
Only 28% of grassroots militants believe that Johnson has done a good job in the face of the coronavirus, compared to 63% who believe that he has done it badly, according to a ConHome poll.
In the past six months,
Johnson has let his 26-point gap over the Labor Party slip away
and has even allowed the new opposition leader, former Attorney General
Keir Starmer
, to
beat
him in polls (42% to 39%). %, according to the latest Opinium poll for 'The Observer').
Never has a Conservative leader been so deflated in such a short time, with the exception perhaps of
Anthony Eden
, Churchill's successor, who won a 60-seat majority in 1955 and had to give up at 18 months due to poor health and fiasco of the Franco-British intervention in the Suez crisis.
The ghost of Eden has been resurrected these days by analysts like
Iain Martin
, in an article in 'The Times' entitled' The "Tories" are already thinking about life after Johnson.
Martin emphasizes how
the Covid can be Boris Johnson's particular "Suez crisis"
, with the speculations that do not stop about his state of health since he contracted the virus (no matter how much he says he feels "as strong as the dog of A butcher").
Johnson may still cling to the "lifeline" of a post-Brexit trade deal and a second wave not as scary as those of Spain and France, but his days are already numbered, according to the columnist for 'The Times':
"The brutal truth is that the tribe of "Tories" has begun to imagine their emperor retired or in exile ".
The holy trinity of the conservative press ('The Daily Mail', 'The Sun' and 'The Daily Telegraph') has also initiated a calculated demarcation of the "premier" on account of the strategy before the Covid and in fear of a second lockdown.
More than 80 rebellious "Tories" have made common cause this week to demand that the "premier" stop ruling
as "Big Brother" and commit to putting future restrictions to a vote in Parliament.
At the forefront of the revolt has been the chairman of the 1922 Committee,
Graham Brady
, one of Johnson's greatest allies, who has in passing reactivated the hard-wing insurrection with the growing animosity of
Steve Baker, David Davis or Iain Duncan Smith
.
Meanwhile, two prominent former members of his cabinet have taken down the moderate flank: former Secretary of the Treasury
Sajid Javid
and former attorney general
Geoffrey Cox
, very critical of his decision to violate international law and modify the Brexit agreement.
Johnson's "prick" has also been notably contributed by the staff of more or less incompetent ministers, such as Health Minister
Matt Hancock
(responsible for the erratic strategy against the coronavirus) or Education
William Gavinson
(architect of the debacle over the " mutant algorithm "that lowered the selectivity scores).
Among them,
Rishi Sunak
, the 40-year-old Secretary of the Treasury, the son of immigrants from Punjab and touched with the magic wand of Goldman Sachs,
has emerged with his own strength
.
His motto of "live without fear" and his successful program "Eat Out to Help Out" (with discounts of 50% in restaurants throughout the summer) has made him
the strongest candidate for successor to Johnson himself.
The conservatives do not forgive, you know, and the arrows are also pointing these days towards the strategist
Dominic Cummings
, who seems to have run out of resources and without slogans.
Cummings, who miraculously escaped the scandal of his 400-kilometer journey in full confinement, has not only created an empire of terror in Whitehall, but has kept the "premier" under a kind of straitjacket that is distancing him from the voters.
The criticism has also extended these days to Johnson's girlfriend,
Carrie Symonds
, photographed with her son Wilfred on Lake Como as the long-suffering 57-year-old father struggled to find himself in the twilight of Downing Street.
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