The British Prime Minister acknowledged that he participated in a party in May 2020, while the rest of the country was strictly confined. Its fall in popularity is brutal and some Conservatives claim its departure from 10 Downing Street.
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Analysis. A few days of rest in Checkers The campaign residence of the British prime ministers and a new haircut will have done nothing: Johnson addresses the year 2022. It is already caught by the scandals. The leader is summoned to explain to messages sent in 2020 to a Conservative Party donor, Lord Brownlow: he asks if he can continue to finance the redecoration of his function apartment at 10 Downing Street and seems to accept, In return, to study Mr. Brownlow’s suggestion to organize a “great exhibition”. Monday, January 10, the ITV channel released an email from Mr. Johnson’s private secretary to a hundred people, inviting them to a “BYOB” Party (for “Bring Your Own Bottle”, “Bring your own bottle “), in the gardens of Downing Street, May 20, 2020, in confinement. Boris Johnson and his future wife (at the time his fiancée) participated, ensure several sources.
Random management of the sanitary crisis
The last two months of 2021 have been calamitous for this atypical, jovial and blunder policy, to which the general public almost forgiveness, including its random management of the sanitary crisis (with 150,000 deaths related to Vis- 19, the United Kingdom holds a sad European record). The Prime Minister has chained the false steps in deciding unpopular tax increases, trying to save a member of Parliament caught in the act of lobbying or refusing to recognize the existence of holidays in Downing Street in apparent violation of health rules. The electoral penalty was immediate: mid-December, the Conservative Party suffered a stowing failure in partial elections in one of its fiefs. And the Labor Party is now in mind in the polls.
Mr. Johnson’s popularity drop is so brutal that his immediate future seems compromised. Taken by his victory in the general elections of the end of 2019, he lost the confidence of his troops: the conservative elected officials, who until then closed his eyes on his faults – the opportunism, the little attention to detail, the elastic relationship to the truth – now doubt on his ability to lead the party to a fourth victory in 2024. Wednesday, January 12, Douglas Ross, the leader of the Irish Conservatives, even called the Prime Minister to resign, after that Last admitted a little earlier participating in a party during confinement. The right media turned against him, and candidates for his succession, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Liz Truss, and Chancellor of the Echiquier, Rishi Sunak, Piaffent.
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