Boris Johnson’s premiership is teetering on the edge
oris Johnson’s position as prime minister of the United Kingdom was teetering on the edge on Wednesday, afterOn Tuesday, Johnson’s finance minister Rishi Sunak and health minister Sajid Javid resigned within minutes of each other. “The public rightly expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously,” Sunak said in his resignation letter. Their resignations were followed over the next 24 hours by an unprecedented 32 other members of the government.
It was only the latest in a series of escalating domestic scandals involving Johnson. In late 2021, and in early 2022, it emerged that the beleaguered prime minister and his colleagues had attended multipleat his official residence, 10 Downing Street, at a time when the rest of the country was under strict COVID-19 lockdowns. Johnson was found to have broken the law—a first for a sitting prime minister—and fined by police for attending one of the parties.
Against many people’s expectations, Johnson survived the “partygate” scandal and eagerly stepped into a more statesmanlike role after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24. He popped up unannounced twice in Kyiv, and committed more than $2 billion of military aid to Ukraine, more money than any country except the United States.But back home, support for him and his party continued to ebb, with rising inflation and a constant drumbeat of “Tory sleaze.
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