Just before Christmas, a video from last year puts Boris Johnson in dire straits. Government employees are said to have celebrated in the middle of lockdown.
London – They are not only supposed to have left out and celebrated without hygiene measures while the country was locked down and hundreds of people died a day, they apparently made fun of it a few days later: Government officials in London’s Downing Street bring Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Distress. Now his government spokeswoman resigned – in tears.
What could be the prime minister’s undoing: It also says in the room that Johnson, who therefore did not take part in the party, lied about the event. In the British Parliament, the prime minister met with a heated mood on Wednesday, boos accompanied Johnson on the way to his seat. The prime minister was loudly called to resign.
Boris Johnson: 63 percent of Britons believe the Premier is lying
Above all, it’s about a video in which the premier’s closest confidants are obviously laughing and thinking about how to gloss over the party. Johnson said in Parliament: “I apologize wholeheartedly for the offense it has created across the country and I apologize for the impression it creates.” There will be an internal investigation and the government will cooperate with the police he assured me.
Johnson also emphasized, however, that he had been repeatedly assured that there had been no party and that corona rules had not been broken. Johnson pushed the possible responsibility on to the employees: If rules were broken, there would be serious consequences. The Metropolitan Police announced in the evening that so far there had been no clear indications of rule violations of Corona requirements, so it would not be investigated initially. According to a poll carried out on behalf of the news channel Sky News, 63 percent of British people believe that Johnson is not telling the truth. Less than one in ten said they believed the prime minister’s assurances.
Boris Johnson: That’s what the video for the Downing Street Christmas party is about
The first resignation followed on Wednesday. Johnson’s former spokeswoman Allegra Stratton tearfully apologized for her remarks in the published video and offered her office as government spokeswoman for the UN climate change conference.
Boris Johnson’s then spokeswoman Stratton jokes in the video
Johnson, on the other hand, was demonstratively unimpressed in parliament by the allegations and calls for resignation. He accused the opposition of digging up old stories to play political games. He, on the other hand, is looking ahead and leading the country out of the Corona crisis.
And that despite the fact that the broadcaster ITV released a video on Tuesday evening that was recorded on Downing Street on December 22, 2020 a few days after the alleged celebration. In the lead role: Johnson’s then spokeswoman Stratton, who is rehearsing for a press conference. An employee jokingly asks Stratton after a party, and those present joke about “wine and cheese”. “This fictional party was a business meeting and there were no social distance rules,” replies Stratton with a laugh.
The response: devastating. ITV presenter Tom Bradby told his audience of millions: “They are laughing at us. You, me, all of us. ”The worst thing for Johnson is the now open criticism from within his own party. Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said that if Johnson deceived Parliament he would have to resign. Several MPs recalled that many people were not allowed to say goodbye to dying relatives and friends at the time. On December 18, 2020, the government reported 514 corona deaths in one day. The video falls at a time when the corona numbers are increasing in Europe – and Boris Johnson is also reintroducing stricter rules. (dpa / kat)
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