Scotland Yard issued its first fines on the holiday scandal organized at Downing Street in confinement. She has not communicated yet on the case of the British Prime Minister, but a conviction could evil the renewed popularity of the war in Ukraine.
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Boris Johnson has not finished with the “Partygate” scandal, hosted for a month by the war in Ukraine. The twenty fines distributed by the Greater London Police (Scotland Yard), Tuesday, March 29, gave this scandal of the holidays organized to Downing Street in full containment at the heart of the British political news. The police certainly did not specify whether the Prime Minister himself became a fine – it is only in his first Salve of penalties, others should follow. But the fact that it has established patent violations of the health rules at the heart of the national executive worried in Downing Street and gives renewed arguments to opposition parties.
Remember the facts: Following a series of media revelations, Scotland Yard announced in January to investigate 12 “events” taking place at Downing Street and Whitehall (the ministries) between May 2020 and April 2021, in Full pandemic of coronavirus, while the British were confined either forbidden for meetings to more than two or six people. Among the most documented events: a “Booze Party” was held in the Gardens of Downing Street on May 20, 2020, and another party also very watered took place the day before the burial of Prince Philip, in April 2021 . Boris Johnson participated in half a dozen of these gatherings, but still asserted the 1 in the House of Commons: “I was assured that the rules were not raped and that there were no holidays. “
“The Prime Minister said [at the time] his understanding of events,” reacted a spokesman for Downing Street Tuesday. As to recognize that parties have taken place despite the health rules, “it is up to the police to draw conclusions, not the Prime Minister,” he added. The Labor, the main opposition party, took the opportunity to renew its calls for resignation: “Culture [within Downing Street] comes from the summit. It’s responsible for it, it is he who spent months lying to his fellow citizens, that’s why he has to leave. He is shameful that the government of Boris Johnson acted as if the rules did not apply to him, while the rest of the country followed them, “said Angela Rayner, the Assistant Labor Check.
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Is the mandate of Boris Johnson again threatened? Since the general elections are not planned before 2024, the danger for the leader, since the beginning of the “PartyGate”, comes less opposition training than its own camp. The Conservative Party has the opportunity to file it, provided that at least one quarter of the Torties deputies in the House of Commons (ie 54) call for a vote of confidence and that they earn it. However, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the vulnerations of change within the Tories have decreased significantly. Some, like Douglas Ross, the head of the Scottish Conservatives, one of the first to dislocate the Prime Minister and ask for his departure, in January, even said that he withdrew his request for a vote of trust.
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