Crisis in Great Britain: for now Boris Johnson is not resigning, he wants to dissolve Parliament and call new elections

Prime Minister Boris Johnson he has decided not to give up and fight until they kick him out. She will speak to Queen Elizabeth tonight to ask her to dissolve Parliament and hold a general election, which she has already done during Brexit.

It is his integrity that is called into question, after he lied to Parliament, for appointing Whip (party spokesperson) MP Chris Pincher, who was Reported twice as a sex offender.

Queen Elizabeth is the head of state of this parliamentary monarchy, without a written constitution, and this is one of her prerogatives. But she has traditionally not been embroiled in a massive, acidic political crisis like this. Nobody knows if they will accept the order or notwhen more than 38 the resignations of ministers and sub-ministers and special envoys in Boris Johnson’s government since 6 pm yesterday.

Could the queen put an end to the general election?

With suggestions that Johnson could call a general election to save his job. A constitutional expert pointed out that the Queen could thwart these intentions in the name of the princes of Lascelles. Mark Elliott, a professor of public law at Cambridge University, said the prime minister “has no direct right to hold general elections”.

“The queen can deny the request if certain conditions are met,” he said. Of course, the question remains whether the Queen would get involved, as she tries to stay out of political affairs.

“The prime minister does not resign”, said a source in Downing St at dinner time, when the Brits watched the psychodrama with an unpredictable ending in amazement. There were no such precedents in their political history. Nobody knows how or when this crisis will end. The parliamentarians are stunned.

This is what he said to the five ministers in his cabinet who begged him to resign: “I am not resigning,” he announced.

Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, the supreme organ of the Conservative party, was in the Cabinet, where he should meet Boris.

Under current rules, Johnson is confident he won’t face another parliamentary challenge until next summer in Europe. But the 1922 Committee You can change the rules as they apparently will do if he decides not to resign.

“He’s out. The only question is whether it will take hours, days or weeks.”former Conservative Chancellor Sir Malcolm Rifkind said. “I think he made himself vulnerable from day one. It was a terrible decision. He was totally unprepared to become prime minister. Most of the country thinks he’s a loser,” the former Tory chancellor said.

a wounded animal

Lawmakers believe Boris “is a wounded animal”. “It’s like Rasputin’s death. He was poisoned, stabbed, wounded, his body thrown into a frozen river and lived on, “former Whips boss Andrew Mitchell said to describe Boris’ political life as over.

In his own words, Boris Johnson has so far received 38 resignation letters of parliamentarians who have left government posts.

Will today be Boris Johnson’s resignation day? The question everyone wants to know the answer to is whether the prime minister will be ousted today or finally agree to resign or this crisis will last until it is defined by a vote of confidence, when the 1922 Committee changes the rules that prevent it. After months of scandals, crises and Tory civil wars, is the game over?

Five of his ministers, led by the new chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and Preti Patel, met to tell the minister that he must resign. “Game over” were his words.

Discharge in cataracts

The “beginning of the end” began after the resignations of Foreign Minister Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid. Then the government targeted Boris Johnson and the resignation followed like a waterfall. It has passed from the question of whether he can survive how long can you survive.

With 38 resignations so far, the deal grew like a snowball and it became an avalanche.

“I think it would literally choke him out completely,” said Sir Roger Gale, a prominent Conservative Party member. “Much kinder it would be if the Prime Minister resigned,” he said, “rather than changing the rules of the 1922 Committee to remove him from office.”

The remarks come as cabinet members gathered in Downing Street to tell Johnson he must step down. Sir Roger says so an “extraordinary majority” of the party The MP wants Johnson to step down, although there are some people who still support the prime minister.

The lawmaker, first elected in 1983, added that he believes Johnson I could try to go ondespite being told to leave most of his senior team.

“I fear, however, that in the nature of man it is likely that the 1922 Committee will have to change the rules and we will have to have a vote of no confidence.”

“It would be much more dignified for the Prime Minister and much kinder actually for the Prime Minister and indeed for his wife, who we must remember must also feel a little pain, if only he understood the situation and left with dignity and in silence “, He suggested.

Preti Patel, the Minister of the Interior and one of Boris’ most loyal officials, was the last to leave. It is in the delegation that he is asking for his resignation. Michael Gove, another of his ministers, was not in Parliament or Downing St. He said in the morning to go away. Boris refuses.

Only one in 150 MPs showed support for Boris Johnson at the 1922 Committee meeting. A Conservative MP stated that, at a 1922 Parliamentary Committee meeting, only one MP (Daniel Kawczynski) made a “positive intervention” for Boris Johnson. These are not large numbers, considering there were around 150 deputies there.

“Very few arrive at the table, a handful at the most. Otherwise unity and kindness are needed,” they said.

Last

But the conservative old guard urged deputies “not to make the same mistakes they did when they were hunted to Margaret Thatcher ”, when Britain faces a brutal economic crisis, the isolation of Brexit and its alliance with Ukraine, when the world is threatened by a nuclear war.

They can’t be wrong. The world is extremely dangerous and Britain is going through a serious crisis, “warned Lord Howell, who was part of the Thatcher government.

Boris Johnson’s allies are handing out an old Daily Express cover from when Thatcher was fired and a question, “What did they do?”

The problem with the Conservative party is who will face Boris Johnson, who in these hours has become a lone warrior. So far, the Tories have no one to confront in an eventual vote of confidence. This scenario is extremely dangerous in the face of such instability and civil war between the Tories.

This was said by Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer “Clearly the government is collapsing”. He accused the ministers of complicity. “They supported him when he lies. They supported him when he laughed at the sacrifices of the British people. “

A YouGov poll tonight found 69% of Brits are expected to step down. Exactly 11 points higher than the poll with the same question on June 9th.

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