After winning his bet on Brexit and having imposed himself on Downing Street, the British Prime Minister, despite some successes, found himself entangled in repeated scandals.
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Boris Johnson dreamed of a destiny at Churchill, his hero, with dramas, sacrifices but also brilliant victories on adversity. The Prime Minister, 58, pushed to resign Thursday, July 7, will remain in the history of British politics as a gaffeur and cynical leader, who has spoiled in two and a half years, by his own fault, an unprecedented electoral victory For his conservative party, never seen from those of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
This atypical political leader, contemptuous rules and conventions and long maintaining a problematic relationship to the truth, leaves a Tory in disarray, stuck by scandals, and a country with an abounded international reputation, weakened by the Brexit, in frontal opposition to the European Union (EU) on Northern Ireland and without plan to fight against the outbreak of energy prices.
At the spectacle of his fall, chaotic and without dignity, in recent days, it was difficult to remember the indisputable authority which Mr. Johnson enjoyed in December 2019, after having won in the general elections an absolute majority at the Communal room. The advance of 80 seats he had on the opposition parties gave him the frank cubits to apply a government program breaking with ten years of austerity.
On a simplistic slogan – “Get Brexit Done” (“Let’s realize Brexit”) – which made wonder in a country exhausted by endless debates on the release of the EU, this ex -promotor of the campaign of “Leave “had also succeeded, with its unconventional style and its promises of an interventionist state, in sinking the famous” red wall “, this Labor bastion of the midlands and northern England, regions still marked by the deindustrialisation of years 1980.
Two and a half years later, Brexit is still not “realized”, London contesting a crucial part of the Treaty of Divorce, the famous North Irish protocol, which the manager had nevertheless endorsed in late 2019. Mr. Johnson has just proposed a bill to unilaterally expur this protocol of customs controls which he establishes between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom, in defiance of international commitments in London.
undeniable successes
But Mr. Johnson also has undeniable successes to his credit. When the pandemic swept through the country, his government was poorly prepared, he underestimated the seriousness of the health crisis, late declared the first confinement and made the same mistakes as elsewhere in Europe: retirement homes were Poorly protected, medical staff have lacked protections. The human balance sheet, with largely more than 150,000 deaths assigned to the COVID-19, is one of the heaviest in Europe.
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