Party-gate in the UK, “Let them eat brioche”: the sarcasm of the tabloids about the stunts of Boris Johnson and Carrie

LONDON – The premier who dreamed of imitating Winston Churchill, and wrote a biography, compared to Marie Antoinette: an unfortunate fate for Boris Johnson. The phrase attributed to the queen in front of the hungry people, before being overwhelmed by the French Revolution, echoes in the British newspapers, on the right as well as on the left: “Let them eat brioche”.

In English we say “let them eat cake”: literally, that they eat a cake, and the straw that broke the camel’s back, prompting Scotland Yard to open an investigation into illegal parties in Downing Street, could have been a cake. .