United Kingdom This was the 'bottle' in Downing Street
UK Boris Johnson's Seven Denials and Bring Your Own Bottle!
Boris Johnson staggers as
premier
due to his involvement in
Partygate
and between calls for resignation in his own ranks.
The conservative leader publicly asked the British for "forgiveness" from Parliament on Wednesday
, after admitting that he personally attended the party held in Downing Street during the first confinement of the Covid on May 20, 2020.
"I understand the fury that the people can feel .
British people towards me and towards the government that I lead,
thinking that Downing Street did not respect the rules properly
, "said Johnson, who justified himself by claiming that he believed the garden party at number 10" was implicitly a work event " . The restrictions in full de-escalation
at that time they limited the meetings to two people from different homes in the open air
and maintaining the social distance of two meters. It is estimated that between 30 and 40 people
were able to attend that party
, at the express invitation of his personal secretary Martin Reynolds, prompting people to bring "their own bottle."
Boris Johnson's excuses fell on deaf ears even among his own co-religionists. The Conservative leader in Scotland, Douglas Ross, was among the first to shoot below his waterline: "If the
premier
was there, as he has accepted today,
he cannot continue in his post
. His position is untenable."
"If we see the response that his intervention has had on the networks,
We can say that Boris Johnson is a walking dead man , "Sir Roger Gale, considered the voice of the conscience of the
Tories
, told BBC radio
." Unfortunately, what the prime minister has said leaves us in an impossible situation : he has deceived Parliament. ""
His position cannot be justified or defended , "said Philip Davies, also a
Tory
deputy
." It is unacceptable that someone in the Government floats above the laws that he has imposed on everyone else. ".
" Is the party over for the prime minister? "
The Daily Mail wondered meanwhile.
, adding to the lynching suffered by Johnson at the hands of the most loyal media in his two and a half years in office. Meanwhile, columnist Henry Deedes predicted that we are "
in the last days of the empire
," and Michael Gove's ex-wife Sarah Vine called for "someone to take command of the
Tories
" before it's too late.
In his parliamentary appearance,
Johnson was lashed out like never before by the leader of the Labor opposition Keir Starmer
, who went down to the personal attack: "We are before the pathetic spectacle of a man who has left the road (...) His Lies are ridiculous. His defense claiming that he did not know it was a party
is an offense to the British
. When is he going to have the decency to resign? "
Starmer asked him to follow the example of his former Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who resigned after admitting he violated restrictions by his sneaky encounter with his lover in full lockdown. Johnson avoided entering to the cloth and referred to the internal investigation - led by senior official Sue Gray -
on compliance with Covid rules in Downing Street
and other government agencies.
Another influential conservative, William Wragg, at the head of the parliamentary committee on Constitutional Affairs,
joined the calls for resignation this Wednesday afternoon
: "I am afraid this is going to be a permanent distraction for the country. With sadness, I think that the Prime Minister's situation is untenable. He is damaging the reputation of the party "
In his public lament, in an unusual tone for him,
Johnson acknowledged the" anguish "with which the British have lived during the lockdowns
," unable to dismiss their loved ones, living their lives or just doing the things they love. "
"Number 10 is a large apartment and
the garden is used as an office extension
, and that use has been constant in recent months due to the importance of fresh air to contain the virus, "claimed Johnson in self-defense, at the time of ensuring that the appointment in question"
could be technically within the rules
.
" When I went to the garden at 6 p.m. on May 20, 2020, to thank groups of staff before returning to my office after 25 minutes,
I implicitly believed that it was a work event,
"he concluded. the
premier
, who recognized however that "millions and millions of people may not see it that way."
Indeed,
66% of British think that Johnson should resign
if he admits his attendance at the Covid party, according to a ComRes poll for
The Daily Mail
.
More than 40% of the conservatives would also be in favor of Johnson's resignation, torpedoed by their own deputies, who could
launch a motion of no confidence by sending a minimum of 54 letters to the 1922 Parliamentary Committee
.
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