The former British Prime Minister, Boris Johnsonhas used his first column in the newspaper Daily Mail to detail how a weight loss pill caused her discomfort, for which, she says, she chose to exercise to lose weight.
Johnson agreed with the newspaper publish a column per week after resigning as an MP eight days ago following criticism from the House of Commons Privileges Committee, which concluded that the politician misled Parliament about “partygate”, the parties at the official Downing Street residence during the pandemic .
In his 1,200-word newspaper article, the former Conservative Prime Minister discusses his failed experience with appetite suppressants, though he concludes that could be used to tackle the UK obesity crisis.
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As usual, the former leader of the tories uses quotes from the Roman emperor Julius Caesar or the English playwright William Shakespeare to color your text. In his column, Johnson claims that he noticed a government colleague’s weight loss and wondered how he achieved it.
“I immediately thought of Julius Caesar and his preference for well-fed colleagues. Let me have fat men around me,” said the Roman dictator, shortly before his assassination,” Johnson writes in one of his paragraphs, reports efe.
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After it became official Friday that Johnson would be a columnist for the Daily Mailthe parliamentary advisory committee on business appointments (Acoba) -regulatory body- indicated that Johnson committed an “infringement” of parliamentary rules by having informed 30 minutes before his signing was announced by the aforementioned medium.
The ministerial code stipulates that deputies must ensure that no new appointments are announced before the committee has been able to provide its advicesomething mandatory even if a deputy has recently resigned, according to a spokeswoman for that committee.
On Thursday, publishing its report, the Commons Privileges Committee recommended that Johnson be suspended from the Commons for a period of 90 days for “partygate”, although the penalty will not be applied because the politician resigned as an MP.
Johnson later called the report “garbage” and called Thursday a “dreadful day” for democracy.
