The rise and fall of Boris Johnson - how a bombastic political career came to a bitter end
Throughout his time as foreign secretary, Boris Johnson made it clear he favoured a harder break from the European Union than some others in government were pushing for.
Two days later David Davis, then the Brexit secretary, resigned. Boris Johnson did the same the following day. His victory was welcomed by US President Donald Trump, who told reporters he was a"really good man", labelling him"Britain Trump". Teaming up with Mr Cummings, however, Mr Johnson embarked on a campaign of dramatic confrontation in a bid to deliver his core pledge.
With ranks of Tory rebels swelling, backbenchers exploited the absence of a government majority and voted to take control of the order of business in the Commons. Mr Johnson's approach suffered another blow later that month, when the Supreme Court ruled the prorogation of Parliament had been unlawful.
The result was the largest Commons majority since 2001 - the 364 seats won by the Conservatives was the highest since Margaret Thatcher.Just weeks after the country had gone to the polls, parliament finally approved the Withdrawal Agreement. And on top of that, there was a love story - with the prime minister announcing his engagement to former Conservative Party communications aide Carrie Symonds, who was pregnant with his child.The actions in Wuhan were in response to an outbreak of a new highly contagious respiratory virus.
In the days that followed restrictions increased - schools closed, bars and restaurants were ordered to shut. Then, on the 23 March 2020, the prime minister gave the nation what he said was a"very simple instruction - you must stay at home". Initial reports suggested Mr Johnson's admission to hospital was a"precautionary measure", but the following day it was confirmed had been moved to an intensive care unit.
It transpired that shortly after he had been pictured rushing out of Downing Street at the end of March, at exactly the time Mr Johnson had tested positive, Mr Cummings had travelled to County Durham - apparently breaching the"stay at home" guidance to self-isolate with COVID outside London. But as summer turned to autumn, cases began to rise once again and after initially pushing back against calls from scientific advisers to institute a two-week"circuit-breaker" lockdown in October, Mr Johnson finally ordered a month-long lockdown in November - seen by many as an attempt to save Christmas.
The Kent variant, more recently referred to as Delta, triggered a surge of cases that put the NHS under extraordinary pressure and forced the prime minister to impose further severe restrictions for the Christmas period and throughout the first few months of 2021.Almost a year after COVID-19 had first emerged, the return to a long and strict lockdown increased the scrutiny of the government's handling of the pandemic.
In the months that followed the NHS mounted a mass vaccination programme that would rival most countries in the world, with vaccines approved and rolled out at a pace that even the opposition parties welcomed. His decision to demand his party vote against the suspension of fellow Brexiteer and former cabinet minister Owen Paterson, who had breached paid lobbying rules, caused outrage - prompting an embarrassing U-turn and apology.
He saw it again in the summer of 2021 when his initial decision to stand behind Mr Hancock backfired, resulting in the former health secretary having to quit after being exposed for having an affair with an aide in his ministerial office.But when reports began to emerge of pandemic parties taking place in Downing Street and in Whitehall, all at times when the rest of the country was unable to do anything of the sort, he and his team repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
Eventually, Mr Johnson found himself unable to avoid an apology for having attended at least one of those events himself. Days after the force launched its investigation probe, Russia invaded Ukraine - shifting the focus away from partygate and leaving many previous critics of the PM changing their minds on the timing of any efforts to oust him.
While the details of the brawls and drunkenness were shocking, those around Mr Johnson appeared confident he had not been personally implicated in any fatal sense.But just over a week after the publication of the Gray report, it appeared things may have been coming to a head. Party chairman Oliver Dowden resigned in the early hours of the morning as the results came in. In his letter to the prime minister, he said"we cannot carry on with business as usual".Instead, the catalyst for the prime minister's downfall came not from law-breaking parties in Downing Street or the devastating by-election losses, but from an incident that took place in a private members' club in St James'.
Ministers were left embarrassed by being sent out to do media interviews, pushing the government line, only to find they had been misled by Number 10 - and ultimately Mr Johnson.
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