In United Kingdom, Boris Johnson weakened by electoral reversal

The loss of a riding in North Shropshire, acquired at the Conservatives for nearly two centuries, accelerates the loss of authority of the UK Prime Minister, already weakened by a series of scandals.

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Another bad news for Boris Johnson: The Conservative Party, whose prime minister is the leader, received an electoral slap Thursday, December 16, during a partial election in North Shropshire, a rural riding of L ‘West of the Midlands, in the hands of the Tories for almost two centuries. It is the Liberal-Democratic candidate Helen Morgan, 46, an accountant of profession, who won the vote with 6,000 votes in advance on the conservative candidate, Neil Shastri-Hurst. She has successfully exploited the discredit that Mr. Johnson suffer and his party, after a long series of scandals and fake political not.

The constituency constituents “were dismayed by the prime minister’s lack of decency,” said Morgan to the announcement of the results on Friday. “The people of North Shropshire spoke on behalf of all the British. They said high and strong:” Boris Johnson, the party is over. “(…) The other prime ministers, they had the meaning of the national interest But with Boris Johnson, what matters is always him and never the others. Our country claims a new leader. Mr. Johnson, you are not a leader, “added the young woman, without sparing his shots.

Since 1997, this constituency has been held by Owen Paterson, a Brexiter near the Prime Minister, who had to resign from the House of Commons in November, after being sanctioned by the parliamentary committee in charge of ethics for selling lobbying services using its elected position. His case was indefensible, but Boris Johnson was still attempting to force the hand of the Conservative elected representatives by imposing a vote in Parliament to suspend the penalty against Mr. Paterson – and, in passing, to try to weaken the powers of the Ethics Commission.

Festivals at Downing Street in full containment

The maneuver was gross. She dismissed in the Tories and Mr. Johnson had to give up in a few hours. But it triggered the unpublished attention of the media in respect of the questionable practices of a large number of conservative elected representatives, in addition to their positions of deputies to the comfortable remuneration, services often very lucrative.

Since the beginning of December, the revelations are linked, too, on holidays organized at the Conservative Party, at the end of 2020, while at the time, the British were forbidden from gatherings. If Mr. Johnson stands out to deny the existence of these holidays, the evidence accumulates. Last Scoop dated Thursday, Guardian, said, citing anonymous sources, that the Prime Minister had participated in a pot with his colleagues on May 15, 2020 in Downing Street, in confinement. Even Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican Church, said “disappointed” at the microphone of the BBC.

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