Operation 'Save Boris'

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Operation

is the name by which the maneuver has been unofficially baptized to rescue

the British

due to the latest

revelations and in the face of calls for his resignation from his own ranks. The operation was orchestrated from Downing Street, which within a few hours ensured the unwavering backing of the cabinet for Boris Johnson, despite the delay of more than eight hours by Treasury Secretary Rishi Sunak and Foreign Minister Liz Truss, considered the favorites to their "sequence".

From Parliament, the leader of the hard wing Jacob Rees-Mogg assured that Johnson has the support of the majority of

parliamentarians and disqualified the leader in Scotland Douglas Ross as "a light weight" within the party. The day before, Ross led the internal calls for resignation, which were joined by influential deputies such as veteran Roger Gale, William Wragg and Caroline Nokes.

Polls meanwhile confirmed the free fall of the Conservative Party

, ten points below the Labor Party (38% to 28%).

and 78% think that he has not been "honest" since the scandal of parties held during the Covid restrictions began, according to a YouGov poll for The Times

.

In a hypothetical hand in hand, 35% of Britons consider that Labor's Keir Starmer would be the "better prime minister", compared to 23% who favor Boris Johnson.

The conservative leader is at the lowest levels of popularity since he came to power, just two fucking points above Theresa May in the week of his resignation in 2019.

In the midst of the storm triggered by his "apology" to the British in Parliament -despite justifying his presence at the party on May 20, 2020 by claiming that he believed it was "a work event"- Boris Johnson decided to disappear from the map when it was revealed that a member of his family had tested "positive" in the Covid test.

The

suspended his visit announced for Thursday at a vaccination center in Lancashire and thus avoided being shot by journalists.

Although you are not required to quarantine, a "limitation of contacts" is advised.

Downing Street confirmed shortly after that

.

seamless support

Before moving to the rear, Johnson secured the unwavering backing of the government.

The first to publicly support him were his Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, Home Secretary Priti Patel, and his old ally in the Brexit campaign, Michael Gove.

The rest of the cabinet joined in on social media between 5 and 6:30 p.m. on Thursday.

The furthest behind were precisely the two favorites to replace him as conservative leader in the polls.

Treasury Secretary Rishi Sunak was not only absent at the time of Johnson's parliamentary speech, but campaigned in his own way during a rally in Devon at the same time (

).

Sunak wrote his post on Twitter at 8.11 and was also very moderate in his support, claiming that the

was right to apologize to the British and to ask for "patience", pending the outcome of the internal Partygate investigation led by the high official Sue Gray.

Liz Truss did not speak out until 9:14 pm, although her support was much stronger than Sunak's.

The head of the Foreign Office highlighted Johnson's achievements - "from Brexit to the booster vaccine, going through economic growth" - and assured that she supports "one hundred percent the prime minister while he moves the country forward".

Truss actually held her first high-level meeting with European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic on Thursday, in her new role as post-Brexit negotiator following the resignation of David Frost in December.

to the problems created by the Irish Protocol.

Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis was even slower to join Operation

, but in the end he was one of the most forceful in defending his leader.

"He said I don't think I did anything outside the rules. Let's wait and see what the investigation determines and people will be able to have their own point of view at that point."

Lewis went even further and met speculation about the Treasury secretary's reserves:

. I know that Rishi gives him his full support."

Rebellion in Scotland

The Partygate has however opened the box of thunders among the conservatives in Scotland.

Hours after local Tory leader Douglas Ross openly called for Johnson's resignation, it was confirmed that

in March.

Former Tory leader in Scotland Ruth Davidson also joined the rebellion against Johnson.

From Westminster, Jacob Rees-Mogg intervened in the controversy by personally attacking Ross, calling him a "lightweight of politics" and recalling that "he has been systematically against the prime minister since Brexit" and without any willingness to help.

The open front with the Scottish Conservatives has, however, left a new flank of division within the party in the air, after the revolt against the "Covid passport" to which up to a hundred deputies joined a month ago, the greatest challenge launched by the

against their own leader since he came to power two and a half years ago.

It would be enough for 54 of the 360

to launch a motion of censure similar to the one that served to unseat Theresa May.

According to conservative media, between 20 and 30 parliamentarians may have already sent their letters, although committee chairman Graham Brady (one of Johnson's biggest critics for his Covid restrictions) has not yet confirmed how many letters have come into his possession.

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