It’s a new risky week that opens for Boris Johnson. The British Conservative Prime Minister is facing calls to resign, including from within his own party, after the press revealed that he and his employees had organized boozy parties at his residence during the various confinements.
From our correspondent in London, Emily Wine
Two operations are underway to keep Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street. The first, official, is called “Operation Red Meat” and is based on announcements that the press willingly qualifies as populist, aimed at diverting attention from the drinking binges in the residence: end of the television license fee for 2027 (a sea serpent policy), deployment of the army in the Channel to prevent migrants from landing on the English coast, in place of the coastguards deemed ineffective by the British right.
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Second operation, unofficial this one, the operation “Save the big dog”. Or how to restore the image of the Prime Minister?
About fifteen members of the government have been making the rounds of the media since last week to publicly support Boris Johnson – a notable absence, that of the Minister of the Economy, Rishi Sunak, tipped to succeed him in the event of an election among the Conservatives. These semi-official spokespersons suggest that some Downing Street staff could be made redundant and that alcohol would now be banned there.
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