LONDRA – Boris Johnson has decided to resign. After an increasingly mad and paradoxical resistance, with almost the entire party against, the British Prime Minister has finally surrendered.
He had no other choice after he barricaded himself on Downing Street, as he continued the torrent of resignations from his government and the Conservative party and the Tory procession at number 10 to get him to quit. Johnson had sought new ministers to replace them, but no one was willing to sacrifice themselves for a now discredited leader and a sinking boat. The British Prime Minister will announce his resignation today. An incredible fall, less than three years after his historic electoral triumph.
Johnson held out until the end before leaving. But this morning he is really alone in Downing Street. Because since 6.30 in the morning he resumed the flow of resignations of members of his executive, which even broke through 60. Among these, there were also the sensational farewells of two ministers appointed only 48 hours ago, in a lightning and desperate reshuffle . That is the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, that is the Minister of Finance Nadhim Zahawi, and the Minister of Education Michelle Donelan. Zahawi wrote, in a public letter not even addressed directly to the prime minister who had appointed him: “You must go, for the good of all.” An increasingly absurd theater in Whitehall.
By now, Boris Johnson, the man who won the biggest electoral triumph since the 1980s two years ago, had almost the entire party against and 89% of Britons calling for his demise (including 54% of Conservatives). . Fatal the “Partygate” scandal of the parties in lockdown in Downing Street, for which he was fined and investigated by the Parliament for having probably told the false in the courtroom, and the last of the deputy Christopher Pincher: promoted by Johnson in the government despite his evenings of alcohol and sexual harassment against young men and Tory activists. Again, the prime minister had initially said he was unaware of Pincher’s misdeeds, before being nailed to old documents and former collaborators who still remember Boris’ jokes about the deputy’s vices.
Johnson is expected to remain in office, albeit resigned, until the fall. Denied the rumors that gave a sensational return of Theresa May to Downing Street, albeit ad interim. In the summer, the next Conservative leader will be chosen and therefore the new prime minister. All this before the general elections, which at this point will most likely take place as planned, i.e. in 2024.