Apologies Prime Minister Boris Johnson said sorry to MPs on Tuesday. He was also called on to leave the government because honesty is important in politics, but he didn’t do it.
He told parliament for the first time since he was fined on April 12 that he didn’t think he did anything wrong when he went to an office party for his birthday in June 2020, when Britain was under a pandemic lockdown.
When he said, “That was my mistake, and I’m sorry for it without reservation,” he meant it.
Johnson said that the British people had a right to expect more from their prime minister. He said that he would get on with the job, including defending Ukraine against Russia’s “barbaric” invasion, and that he would get on with the job.
A lot of people thought that Johnson was trying to cover up the “party game” fines, which have also hurt his finance minister and wife.
Another fine could come his way over Downing Street parties that took place despite strict coronavirus lockdowns imposed by his own government over the past two years. Johnson could still be hit with more fines.
MPs will hold a special meeting on Thursday to see if he lied to the House of Commons when he said he had never broken the rules. As soon as then, he will be on an official trip to India.
You must not intentionally mislead the parliament, which is against the government’s code of conduct. Opposition lawmakers say he should resign because this is against the code of conduct.
But when asked directly if he deliberately lied to parliament, Johnson said, “No.”
Opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer said there was a lot of support for Britain’s support for Ukraine, and any Conservative successor would keep going with the same policy.
Starmer told the story of a man who couldn’t hold his dying wife’s hand in the hospital because of rules made by Covid.
Starmer said that Johnson was “a man without shame” who was backed by “nodding dogs” in his cabinet. He asked Conservative MPs to get rid of their leader.
If they want to “bring honesty and integrity back into our politics,” the Labour leader said, “then we need to stop degrading this country.”
One national survey found that about two-thirds of people thought bad things about Johnson, compared to just 16% who thought good things about him. The word “liar” was the most common response.
Overall, “party game” is what people think of Boris and Ukraine, says James Johnson, a Conservative pollster who did the survey.
“Fury has not gone away. There are a lot of people who say bad things about him because they used to like him, but now they don’t like him. “
Voters will have a chance to make a decision on May 5, when the UK votes for all of its local and city councils across the country.
When the Conservatives are beaten, that might make MPs angry at him. Some have said that because of the Ukraine war still going on, it’s not the right time to change leaders now.
Minister Simon Wolfson has already resigned from the government, citing “the scale, context, and nature” of the rule breaches as the reason why.
To make sure he has a good relationship with the people who work in the House of Commons, Johnson will speak to the Conservative parliamentary party on Tuesday evening.
When Johnson apologized in the House of Commons, a senior Conservative backbencher called him “not, worthy” of being prime minister afterward and said that.
There are a lot of alleged lockdown violations by Johnson and his staff at the Downing Street complex where he lives and works in London. The Metropolitan Police are looking into them.
It said last week that police had already given out more than 50 fines.
Scandal: This is the latest of a long string involving Johnson that has been going on since last year. It left him with his job hanging by a thread, and MPs from his Conservative Party were angry.
But he made it more likely that he would live because he responded to Ukraine in a way that was seen as strong. This kept the attention off of him when he was most vulnerable in February.
Besides the scandal, people say that the cost of living crisis in Britain has kept people from paying attention to it. Also, Boris Johnson has made a lot of big policy announcements for his pro-Brexit political base.
Migrants and asylum seekers who cross the Channel could be sent to Rwanda, which is thousands of miles away. This plan is very controversial.
