He makes mistakes, the BoJo. And he pronounces some, enormities. Even as a video of these illegal parties held by the Prime Minister (where we saw him dancing, pint in hand, with one of his collaborators), as well as a copy of the leaked invitation specifying “Bring a bottle”, the curator, far from being embarrassed by shame or encumbered by the truth, belied the facts by hammering that these were work meetings. Despite the mounting evidence. And from the ever-increasing number of Parts under investigation: 12 at present.
At the same time, Boris Johnson is not famous for his scruples. On the contrary. More recently, he was accused of “Trumpising” English politics after knowingly speaking the untruth about a political opponent. Low in the polls and hoping to discredit the opposing side, Johnson insinuated that Labor’s Keir Starmer had misused his time when he was head of the British prosecution by suing journalists rather than the confirmed pedophile Jimmy Saville. The outcry was immediate. Outrage, general.
Many were already the voices calling for his resignation before this last feat of arms. Now it’s a cannon. So BoJo is struggling to retain power: earlier this week, to calm the mood, he made a small surprise reshuffle of his Downing Street team, but these appointments of former faithful had the opposite effect and continued to weaken his position. Will his next blunder be the last? In the meantime, the absence of strong rivals in Labor plays, for the moment, in favor of Boris.
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Drawing by Amandine Victor