Earthquakes at the heart of British politics. Boris Johnsonformer Prime Minister and Tory leader who triumphed in late 2019 elections and fell last summer amid scandals and internal unrest, He also announced his resignation as deputy with immediate effect tonight: triggering a crisis that threatens to endanger the very survival of the government of Rishi Sunak, his successor, former finance minister and now internal opponent.
The departure from the House of Commons seat was justified in a long and angry open letter published by the main architect of Brexit in the evening. Letter in which BoJo, controversial and divisive to the end, pointedly pointed the finger at the current Executive and the political direction Sunak had given his party, as well as the Labor opposition and the investigations launched into it in recent months against him The so-called ‘Partygate’ scandal surrounding gatherings organized during his tenure at Downing Street which were suspected of breaching anti-Covid restrictions in place at the time. Johnson said in the text that during these hours he had received the final report of the bipartisan parliamentary commission that, at the beginning of the scandal, was supposed to assess whether he had lied to the House of Representatives. A highly condemning report, which he said was the result of the “shameful bias” with which the Commission was allegedly run by its President, Harriet Harman, a veteran Labor MP.
“I have not lied, and I believe that the Commission, in its heart, knows perfectly well,” wrote the former Prime Minister, referring to the members of the Commission, “that I have said what I have said in my discussions with local authorities sincerely believed it to be the truth.” But they are still determined to “push me out of Parliament” in an “anti-democratic” way. An epilogue Johnson – who has by no means resigned himself to returning to the shadows after the ups and downs of his political career, which he experienced through countless controversies and rebirths on his way from London Mayor to Her Majesty’s Prime Minister – clearly cannot bear intended. And who would rather fall personally by slamming the door “at least for the time being”, as he repeatedly emphasizes. And if Uxbridge College remains empty on the outskirts of the capital, where ‘traitor’ Sunak’s Conservative Party risks losing, given the latest polls.
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