The resignation ball begins in Downing Street. Four advisers to the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, have left their positions one after another as a result of the scandal known as Partygate, due to the parties organized at the government headquarters when the more or less strict confinement was in force.
The first to present her resignation was the chief of police, Munira Mirza, who accuses the prime minister of being “rude” for having linked Labor leader Keir Starmer with the failure to bring pedophile Jimmy Savile to justice, according to reports . TheGuardian . Munira Mirza had been with Boris Johnson for more than a decade.
This Thursday also drew attention to how the Minister of Finance, Rishi Sunak, favorite in the succession race, in a press conference, has been critical of Boris Johnson for the first time. He said that he would not have linked Starmer to the Savile case, but that it was up to the prime minister to decide if he had to apologize.
His departure was then announced by Dan Rosenfield, chief of staff; Martin Reynolds, private secretary to Boris Johnson; and its director of communications, Jack Doyle. All three are directly involved in the parties that Scotland Yard is now investigating. Reynolds was the one who sent an email calling a party in Downing Street on May 20, 2020, telling guests to bring “your own drink.” Boris Johnson’s future once known part of Sue’s report Gray, is in the hands of the Metropolitan Police .
a collapse
“In the words of an experienced backbencher MP, Downing Street is not a nightmare, it is a real meltdown. There are two different issues that have happened in a turbulent day. On the one hand, three advisers have paid for the fiasco of the parties: one for calling and the others for not articulating an adequate response, ”says Laura Kuenssberg, a political commentator at the BBC. “But Mirza’s march is different. For more than a decade he has been Boris Johnson’s shadow mastermind.”
In turn, there is movement again in the 1922 Committee. According to the BBC, 17 conservative deputies have signed letters calling for the prime minister’s resignation. To activate the motion of no confidence, 54 are needed. Most argue that the presence of Boris Johnson at the parties organized in Downing Street is reason enough for him to leave.
If Scotland Yard’s investigation confirms that Boris Johnson was indeed at some of the Downing Street parties, he will be hard-pressed to prevent his parliamentary group from putting the motion on the agenda.