Boris Johnson resigns and only negotiates the schedule of his departure as prime minister

Boris Johnson He has resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom due to the abandonment of his Government and will address the country in a public statement before noon. The prime minister has not resisted the cascade of resignations in his government, but he is negotiating to remain in office until the election of the new leader of the Tories, which could be in the autumn.

Until today, the conservative leader has not survived his excesses in a pandemic, in particular his notorious parties in Downing Street, known as partygate, nor to the most recent scandal of the pincher case.

Johnson’s situation became untenable as the British press published photographs and detailed information about very large ‘meetings’ with food and alcohol involved when the population was confined and social contacts were limited to the extreme to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The pressure first came from outside, but it was not long before he was pointed out by his team.

However, the case that has ended up dictating its end was the one that has involved Chris Pincher. The senior government official is accused of sexual harassment of two men and inappropriate behavior. Boris Johnson’s honesty was called into question after it was revealed that the Prime Minister knew of these allegations when he appointed Pincher, despite having denied it on multiple occasions.

The leader of the opposition in the United Kingdom, the Labor Keir Starmer, has considered Johnson’s resignation as “good news” for the country, although “it should have happened a long time ago”. In a statement, Starmer considered that the United Kingdom “you don’t need to change the ‘tory’ in power”, but a “complete change of government”.

Just a month ago, the prime minister passed a confidence motion among his deputies, but was injured. He got the support of 59% of them, less than Theresa May in 2018 or much sooner John Major Y Margaret Thatcher.

Johnson has tried to move forward, avoiding the deep leadership crisis and trying to be in the front row on the main international fronts, thereby also washing his image. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has come to recognize his satisfaction with the continuity (until today) of his “friend”. The United Kingdom is being one of the biggest supports for kyiv economically and militarily.

But Johnson is already out. The government was undone, he was left alone and with no alternative and one minister followed another and another, until there were more than 50 senior officials who left the Executive throughout Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The premiere began to smell like a political corpse and some of his closest collaborators did not want to risk his fate.

He alone could not take charge of an entire Executive, despite having practically made Thatcher’s “fight, fight until you win” his own. The first to take the step were the finance ministers, Rishi Sunakand Health, Sajid Javid.

Negotiation

The Conservative Party must now start a primary process to determine who succeeds Johnson and precisely the prime minister’s negotiation is now focused on seeing how his departure from Downing Street is carried out and if it can be delayed over time.

Johnson wants to stay in position until a new leader is elected conservative, although some leaders Tories They have already shown their disagreement. The problem is that if his departure is not agreed, the British Parliament only has until July 22, before it closes for vacation, to carry out some immediate maneuver that causes his departure.

If not, the final decision would be moved to September, so it could be feasible for the Conservatives to negotiate better now.