The scandal over the parties during the lockdown caused the British prime minister to face a no-confidence vote brought forward by members of his own party.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke behind closed doors for nearly half an hour on Monday with Conservative Party supporters to advocate his stay in office.
According to BBC policy correspondent David Wallace Lockhart, Johnson urged members of Parliament not to engage in “a pointless fratricide debate” and “refuse to give rivals the satisfaction of being hostile to one another”.
In the coming hours, the prime minister faces a vote on a no-confidence motion that could remove him from office. In parliamentary regimes such as the British regime, a motion of no confidence is a tool that the Legislature can use to question the head of government’s continuity in office.
Johnson has been at the center of what has been called the “party door” for months, involving parties and celebrations during the strictest lockdown period in the UK.
During the period of social distancing against Covid-19, the presence of the prime minister and several members of his team in the parties began to be officially investigated.
The officer responsible for investigating allegations of health abuses by government officials, Sue Gray, reviewed 16 incidents held at Downing Street (the prime minister’s official residence) and ministry offices between May 2020 and April 2021, as well as a memorial service. Education Directorate building.
One of them was the birthday party for the prime minister held in the so-called Cabinet Room on 19 June 2020.
Picture: ANDY RAIN/EPA
The so-called Sue Gray report, published last May, speaks of “a failure of leadership and judgment” and says that “in the context of the epidemic, when the government is asking citizens to accept broad restrictions on their lives, some behavior around them is difficult to justify”.
“Some of these events should not have happened. Others should not have developed as they did.”
The text also points out that in some associations excessive alcohol consumption is “never appropriate in a professional setting”.
Johnson even apologized before Parliament for “the things we didn’t get right and the way the matter was handled”.
“It’s useless to say that things are done by the rules, and it’s useless to say that people (Downing Street) are working hard. This pandemic has been tough for everyone. We’ve asked people to make extraordinary sacrifices and I understand people’s anger. But that’s the case. It’s not enough to apologize. In the mirror (…) I fully embrace Sue Gray’s findings and her advice that we should learn and act now.”
“We are making changes to the way Downing Street and the Cabinet Offices work so we can continue the work I was chosen to do,” he said.
Since then, members of parliament have been calling for a no-confidence motion against Johnson. This Monday, the number of letters sent by congressmen from the Conservative Party reached 54, or 15% of the total number of MPs with the same abbreviation as the prime minister – the limit set by the party’s rules for the process to begin.
Voting will take place this Monday between 18:00 and 20:00 local time (between 14:00 and 16:00 Brazilian time). Johnson needs 180 votes to stay in office. If the Conservative Party does not win that majority, it will have to appoint another person to head the party and assume the post of prime minister.
Nadine Dorries, secretary of culture, one of Johnson’s main allies in recent days, said Johnson was the victim of friendly fire in the acronym and that some of his co-religionists were “doing the opposition’s job”.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4 last week, Dorries said there was “behind the scenes a campaign led by one or two people trying to overthrow the prime minister for personal ambition and other reasons”.
This Monday, he exchanged views on social media with Jeremy Hunt, Conservative Party Member of Parliament and one of the voices critical of Johnson.
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source: Noticias
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