The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story

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The words were shared with Lord Hague, the former Tory leader and a Times columnist, who had preceded Sunak as MP for Richmond. An internal inquiry found that 83 people had violated the rules, and the police imposed hundreds of fines, including one on Johnson. Yet that is a big question that will need more detailed study and thought than is possible at the moment. Tim Shipman A timely reminder of the fine art of defenestration written by one of Fleet Street’s most trusted insiders.

Amid a feverish atmosphere in Westminster, Cabinet ministers went public with messages of support for the PM. Bye bye Boris … the former prime minister with his wife Carrie after delivering his resignation speech outside No 10.

People who don’t like Johnson sometimes mistake him for a populist, or a milder version of Trump, but he is neither of those things. He led the Brexit campaign, won the public’s backing and then delivered that change in office, reshaping the country’s entire economic and diplomatic strategy in a single swoop. On November 30th, about seven weeks ago, the Daily Mirror, a left-leaning tabloid, published the first stories about parties taking place at No. What is devastating about the parties at 10 Downing Street is that things were serious, the suffering outside the walls was real, and—perhaps most crucial—Johnson has acknowledged this. Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson said he would step down less than three years after his landslide election victory, following a series of scandals that have ensnared his government.

The Fall of Boris Johnson: the full Story by Sebastian Payne of the Financial Times, and Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of the Unexpected Rise and rapid Fall of Liz Truss , by Harry Cole and James Heale of The Sun and The Spectator respectively, are impressive feats of productivity. He admits from the start that it would be a “vain endeavour” to seek new recruits to Johnson’s fan club – and that one of his own children described his subject as a “vile, disgusting human being”. Recent events in the UK have included a damaging lobbying affair and multiple revelations of political figures breaking their own lockdown laws during the pandemic.Another said ‘you’d be lucky’ if 25 per cent of the time in a meeting was spent on the issue at hand. The collapse of the “red wall” of safe Labour seats was a pivotal moment in British political history.