While the highlight is the report of the senior Sue Gray on this case is expected in the coming days, itv publishes photos taken, according to the channel, during a departure celebration in the second confinement.
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It’s a high risk week for Boris Johnson. The full report of the high civil servant Sue Gray, in charge of the highly anticipated report on the scandal of “partygate”, these alcoholic evenings having taken place at Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic, should be published in the coming days.
A preliminary report, considerably expected not to interfere with the police investigation, gave a scathing taste, by denouncing, among other things, “errors of leadership and judgment”, having allowed these festivals of take place.
While Boris Johnson has been trying for months to mitigate the scandal, The ITV television channel published , Monday, May 23, new photos showing the chief of the British government lift a drink with a group of people around a table on which food and wine bottles are arranged. According to the British channel, these photos were taken during the departure celebration of Boris Johnson communications on November 13, 2020. The United Kingdom was living, then, its second confinement.
targeted by a parliamentary survey
At the end of his curly investigation last week on the “Partygate” scandal, the London police issued 126 fines, corresponding to eight different dates, going from May 20, 2020 to April 16, 2021.
She, however, spared Boris Johnson with a new fine, after that received in April for having violated the health rules during the pandemic – and participated in one of the holidays that took place in Downing Street, that of his Birthday in June 2020. He then insured stayed only “ten minutes”. “I must say frankly that he did not seem to me, at the time, that it could break the rules,” he had pleaded.
Images, published Monday by ITV, again throws doubt as to the veracity of the British Prime Minister’s statements, which repeatedly repeated, including in front of the House of Commons, that “all the rules have been followed “. When the first accusations emerged, in the fall of 2021, Boris Johnson assured before the deputies “that there had been no party” and that no rule established to stem the epidemic had been in charge.
The publication of the Sue Gray report will allow a new survey, this time, to start. It will aim to determine if Boris Johnson knowingly cheated on the deputies in this case, while the ministerial code provides that a minister who has deliberately had to resign.
Monday, several political leaders, some of which within the Conservative Party, estimated that these new images proved that Johnson had lied to Parliament.
“It is absolutely clear that there was a party, that he attended, that he had a toast to the one his colleagues, told the conservative deputy Roger Gale to Times Radio. means that he deceived us [at the gallery of the chamber]. “Ruth Davidson, the former leader of the Conservatives of Scotland, also estimated that the photos showed that Johnson had” lied to parliament “. “I don’t think her situation is tenable,” she said.