the scandals that marked the career of the former British prime minister

The resignation of the president of the BBC, Richard Sharpformer high-ranking Goldman Sachs and adviser of Boris Johnsonon account of his role as a mediator for the former prime minister to obtain a credit of 900,000 euros before his appointment is the last chapter of the many scandals carried out by the former leader of the Conservative Party British.

[Dimite el presidente de la BBC por ocultar que ayudó a Boris Johnson a obtener un préstamo de 900.000 €]

In July 2022 Boris Johnson announced his resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after a trickle of resignations from members of his government and the party tory when it became known that he had appointed the curator Christopher Pincheron whom accusations of sexual abuse were weighing against the legislator.

But Johnson has a long and remarkably diverse list of situations that have come under severe scrutiny by the public opinionnot just the British.

Johnson, the candidate who seduced with some shrimp-flavoured fries

Boris Johnson worked as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph and in 2001 he launched himself fully into carve out a political career conquering the conservative delegates with a speech in which he opted for privatize in the National Health System. But she did it from the story of who eats the toasta speech that horrified many and, nevertheless, catapulted him as a candidate toryas described by the Irish writer and journalist Fintan O’Toole describes in heroic failure. Brexit and the politics of pain.

[Boris Johnson se despide del Parlamento al más puro estilo ‘Terminator’: “Hasta la vista, baby”]

In those years, Brexit grew as public representatives focused their criticisms of a Europe that advanced small regulations. Johnson made a whole political flag to defend the habits of middle english denouncing that the EU supposedly wanted to ban the “prawn cocktail flavored” crispsnonsense that heightened the intensity of the nascent Brexit debate around “British identity”…

[Las siete vidas de Boris Johnson o cómo sobrevivir políticamente al ‘Partygate’]

As if the Brussels technocrats were thinking about that, when in fact The EU sought since 1991 to limit the use of artificial sweeteners in food. Explains Fintan O’Toole in The confidential that a sector of the press took him to the terrain of the “threat to British heritage from flavored crisps”.

Boris Johnson and his party gate: the birthday party during the pandemic

While most of UK society saw their most basic rights restricted in order to “limit the spread” of Covid-19 at the height of the pandemic, the then Prime Minister enjoyed famous parties with members of his government: Illegal parties, exempt from any anti-Covid-19 measure, in Johnson’s own office.

But when he received a ticket from the Police for attending a birthday party in Downing Street, on the eve of the funeral of Prince Philip, husband of Elizabeth II, in April 2021, Johnson reached the climax of the scandal. As the details leak out, was forced to ask apologies to queen elizabeth.

[El informe del ‘Partygate’ pide “responsabilidades” a Downing Street: “Vómitos, borracheras y altercados”]

Psubsequentlythe official in charge of the independent and official investigation into the party gateSue Gray, explained that at those parties there was excessive alcohol consumption, the occasional fight and poisoning.

[Diputados británicos difunden pruebas que implican a Boris Johnson en el ‘Partygate’]

Over and over again Johnson denied being aware of illegal parties until he admitted his mistake, yes, claiming he “sincerely” believed the gatherings did not break the law.

The controversial extension in Parliament to approve Brexit

Queen Elizabeth II ordered a parliamentary extension in the summer of 2019 in response to the prime minister’s request to push through Brexit and on September 10 the suspension of the Chamber materialized, generating confusion and commotion in the country before a decision that some called a “coup d’état”.

[Boris Johnson anuncia su dimisión: “Estoy triste por dejar el mejor trabajo del mundo”]

The accusations did not question the mechanism but the purpose of the parliamentary stoppage, with the citizen in suspense and focused on the possible consequences of the extension with respect to a Brexit that had been knocked down in Parliament on numerous occasions.

[Diez libros sobre el Brexit]

In opposition, the labor party he saw in the prime minister’s move an attempt to veto parliamentary scrutiny of the government’s plans to force the UK out of the EU. Despite the fact that the British Justice annulled the extension, considering it “null and void”, in December it was consummated Brexit with a slim majority.

Boris Johnson and his meeting with an oligarch and former KGB agent

Is about Alexander Lebedevwith whom he met privately in 2018 in Italy no officials present. Back then, Boris Johnson was serving as foreign minister and only when his resignation began to materialize did he acknowledge that such a meeting had taken place.

[La cadena de mentiras con la que se ha ahorcado Boris Johnson]

It was learned as a result of a question from the labor deputy Meg Hiller in the House of Commons questioning whether Johnson had at least informed members of his Ministry. His response was: “I think I mentioned it, yeah”.

The sex scandals in the ranks of the tories

The Conservative Party has been peppered with allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct on several occasions. Conservative lawmaker Imran Ahmad Khan has resigned after being found guilty of sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy.

[El “ridículo” plan de Boris Johnson para evitar más asesinatos de mujeres: infiltrar policías en bares]

Neil Parish, another Conservative lawmaker, resigned after admitting he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons twice, in what he called “a moment of madness.”

The prime minister’s apartment and its controversial reform

The Downing Street reform that Boris Johnson then occupied cost the Conservative Party a fine of 17,800 pounds from the British Electoral Commission for failing to correctly report a donation it had received to pay for it.