The former ‘premier’ assures that the conservative majority is “clearly at risk”
9 () – The former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson announced this Friday his resignation as a member of the Conservative Party in the British Parliament, thus ending his political career, marked by the scandal of the illegal parties held in Downing Street during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It is very sad to leave Parliament, at least for now, but above all I am baffled and horrified that he could be thrown out, in an undemocratic way, by a committee chaired and led by Harriet Harman, who is so egregiously biased,” he said. Johnson in his resignation letter, as reported by the BBC.
In this sense, he has assured that he has been “forced” to submit his resignation as deputy for the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency, in north-west London, within the framework of the investigation led by Labor party Harriet Harman with a conservative majority. “It was clever on my part to think that these procedures could be fair,” he said.
“I have been a parliamentarian since 2001. I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie, and I think in their heart of hearts, the committee knows that. But they have deliberately chosen to ignore the truth, because from the beginning, their purpose has not been discover the truth”, he argued, adding that the objective was to blame him “regardless of the facts”.
Johnson has thus branded the body as a ‘kangaroo court’, an expression in English that refers to when a court or an assembly ignores the laws approved by a country and has affirmed that the committee is made up of “a small handful of people, without evidence to support their claims and without the approval of members of the Conservative Party”.
The scandal over illegal parties, known as ‘Partygate’, ended up accelerating Johnson’s resignation on September 6, 2021, amid pressure from his own colleagues due to the discredit that the Conservative Party was acquiring for this and other scandals. under his command.
The parliamentary committee, led by Labor Harriet Harman, is investigating whether Johnson knowingly lied about the holidays to the House of Commons. “I did not intentionally or recklessly mislead the House on December 1, 2021, December 8, 2021 or on any other date,” she said in a written defense sent to the parliamentary committee investigating her handling of that crisis.
Hours before the news broke, the British media have published the official list of Johnson’s nominees for an honorary title, another scandal that adds to Johnson’s career, since several of the names that appear in the document are officials of his stage as ‘premier’ who participated in the illegal parties known as ‘Partygate’.
Specifically, Johnson has nominated as a knight his main former private secretary Martin Reynolds, as well as his former head of Communication Jack Doyle, two people who are known to have participated in the parties in the midst of the health crisis in the country caused by the pandemic. .
CRITICS OF SUNAK AND GRAY
Likewise, the former ‘premier’ has ensured that the conservative majority “is clearly at risk”. “We should not be afraid that there is a clearly conservative government,” he pointed out, in a veiled reference to the current Executive of Rishi Sunak.
“We need to show how we are making the most of Brexit. In the coming months we must set a pro-growth and pro-investment agenda, with business and personal tax cuts, but not as an electoral gimmick,” Johnson argued.
In his letter, he also said he was “proud” of his time at the head of Downing Street, citing, among other achievements, the speed of the vaccination system against COVID-19, as well as the implementation of Brexit and the role of the United Kingdom in the Ukrainian war.
On the other hand, the former British prime minister has also criticized Sue Gray, who led the investigation into ‘Partygate’, in the text, stating that it would not be any “coincidence” that she now becomes “head of staff”. of the leader of the Labor Party.
The report issued by Gray assured that “regardless of the initial intention” of the recorded events, “most of the meetings that occurred did not respect the restrictions and health guidelines imposed at that time.”