After having apologized before the House of Commons, Boris Johnson had announced that he was going to reorganize his services, without this calm the critics of which it is the object.
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
The names of three of them had been cited in the Downing Street Festival Survey in full confinement of the British population during the CVIV-19 pandemic. Boris Johnson’s Cabinet, the British Prime Minister Dan Rosenfield, his main private secretary, Martin Reynolds, his director of communication, Jack Doyle, and his Political Advisor Munrara Mirza all resigned on Thursday 3 February. Martin Reynolds is the one who had sent an email to a hundred people to invite them to a pot in May 2020.
After having apologized before the House of Commons following the publication of an overwhelming report of the High official Sue Gray at the beginning of the week, Boris Johnson announced that he would rearrange his services, without This calms the critics of which it is the object.
The Prime Minister thanked Martin Reynolds and Dan Rosenfield for their “important contribution to the government”, especially for their work on the pandemic and the economic recovery, said a spokesman in a statement. “They will stay in place until their successors are designated,” he added.
Erroneous accusations against the Chief of Labor
Mirza reproached Boris Johnson for launching a “misleading” charge against the Leader of the Opposition when he defended himself in Parliament after the publication of an overwhelming internal report on these meetings at Downing Street, who Attached to him “leadership errors”.
The Prime Minister had accused the leader of the Labor Party, Keir Starmer, for allowing the Pedophile Jimmy Savile, BBC’s ex-star fuel, escape justice when he directed the British parquet.
The use of this accusation, widespread in the compotive and far-right circles, provoked a topriated. Keir Starmer himself accused Boris Johnson to repeat “the theories of the plot of fascists to score political points for cheap”. “There was no reasonable or fair basis for this assertion,” wrote Mirza, Policy Manager at Downing Street, in his letter of resignation published on the Spectator magazine.
It was a “partisan reference and displaced to an appalling affair of sexual abuse on children,” she said. Despite his call to that effect, “you did not apologize for the misleading impression that you gave,” she continued.
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According to the tabloid Daily Mail, Jack Doyle , the director of the communication of Boris Johnson, told his teams that he had always been in his intention to leave two years after his arrival at Downing Street in 2020, first in a subordinate role, and that his life Family had strongly suffered from this scandal in recent weeks.
Downing Steet emphasized Boris Johnson’s “gratitude” to these two former counselors for their “contribution to the government”.