The UK is currently facing a government crisis, which mainly revolves around Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Wise tightens around the second. However, Bojo demonstrates an astonishing ability to ignore legal proceedings and trials of legitimacy brought against him.

The country has been ruled by conservatives for more than twelve years now. Much of this period has been marked by austerity: the general spending cuts introduced to tackle the post-2008 financial crisis have led to serious reductions in the quality of public services, especially health, education and social care for the elderly. And children. The UK suspended policy until the outcome of the Brexit referendum reached an agreement with the European Union. The deal was reached only at the end of 2020, when one of the prime ministers, Theresa May, was replaced by Boris Johnson, the current holder of the post and former leader of the Leave Campaign. In 2019, Johnson called a general election, which gave his party a majority of more MPs in parliament. With the final conclusion of the withdrawal agreement by the end of 2020, it looks like Johnson will remain in power for a long time.

Then came the epidemic. Although initially blamed for the lack of response, the government has succeeded in saving jobs, keeping people safe and making vaccines available faster. But the issues raised by the Kovid management mean that other policy areas are lagging behind and the post-Brexit world is already in trouble. Although Johnson kept his promise to “Brexit” (Complete Brexit), He did not prepare the country for changes affecting the import and export of goods under the new trade agreement with the European Union, although he promised that there would be no border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but he actually agreed to one. He signed the Northern Ireland Protocol, which he saw as the best way to protect the 1998 Good Friday Treaty. Kovid erupted before the problems after the Brexit were resolved.

These are the rules that the government imposed on the public during the Pandemic, which meant that most people stayed at home and did not see anyone inside or outside, which led to Johnson’s earlier vote of confidence. June. People could not visit loved ones in hospitals or nursing homes, the number of people attending funerals was strictly limited, and distance keeping laws were enforced. In 2021, however, he revealed that several parties had taken place at 10 Downing Sight, and despite publicly denying that parties had taken place in his official residence and offices, he protested against the ever-applicable application of the rules by “Partigate” (from PartyParty, not a political party Editor’s note), Which culminated in an administrative investigation to determine whether the rules had been violated, and then referred the police investigation to the House of Commons Standards Committee, which lied to the House to determine whether the Prime Minister had violated the Code of Ministers. When the relationship broke down, several Tory MPs indicated that they believed the Prime Minister should resign, as suggested by all other party leaders. But the number of Conservative MPs supporting such a move is not enough to provoke a vote. Many suggested waiting for a report from Sue Gray, the head of the Administrative Investigation, and for a police report to find out that Johnson had attended parties and would be fined. He was fined along with his wife and chancellor for attending at least one party on his birthday. Yet Tory MPs have decided not to act and want to wait and see how the party won the local elections and what the Gray report says. The local elections were not a complete disaster for the Conservatives, as they lost more than 400 seats and control of several local councils. Here again the Conservative MPs did nothing and waited for the Gray report. When published in the last week of May, the report identified serious weaknesses in the political and official leadership of more than a dozen parties investigated by Downing St.

In the midst of all the fuss over the partygate, another issue that Tory MPs were unhappy with Johnson was the issues in the Northern Ireland protocol. The Northern Irish Assembly elections took place and the Catholic nationalist Seine Fine Party won a majority of seats for the first time, allowing its leader to become prime minister. But the second-largest party to the Good Friday Pact, in this case the Democratic Unionists (DUP), will have to take over as deputy prime minister. After the Brexit, the DUP always opposed the Northern Ireland Protocol despite voting in favor. They claim that the separation between Northern Ireland and other parts of the United Kingdom is being imposed and that it must be removed before taking office in the new Assembly, which has led to the paralysis of the Northern Ireland government.

Meanwhile, with the UK government threatening unilateral action on protocol and threatening EU retaliation, Downing St. seems more inclined to defend Boris Johnson by making more political declarations or using what is known as the “dead cat” tactic, i.e. the news suggests. Boris comforts Johnson. The most obvious in this case is the suggestion that the British return to imperial measurements after 50 years of using metric measurements. Even my older children were taught metric in school rather than imperial measurements, so most Brits today cannot measure things using imperial measurements! But, like the dead cat, it kept the Partigate story out of the headlines. Yet opinion polls suggest that 60% of British public opinion thinks Johnson should resign; He shouted as he entered Westminster Abbey for a service celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee, and sent letters urging him to leave as the number of Tory MPs increased. June sees two by-elections in which the Conservatives are likely to lose seats.

As inflation reaches double digits, the country faces a rising cost of living crisis, another area of ​​dissatisfaction among Tory MPs with Johnson and his government. Although some measures are being introduced to help those who are struggling, in the eyes of many Tory MPs they are not going far enough. By the end of the jubilee celebrations, a large number of MPs had signed a letter calling for a vote of confidence. It happened on Monday, June 6 – the day after the celebrations, the first day the MPs returned to Parliament. As expected, Johnson won the vote – with about 130 MPs holding government positions, there was little doubt about the outcome – and even in the secret ballot, the Turks do not vote for Christmas! But more than 150 MPs (41%) from all parts of his party voted against Theresa May or against Margaret Thatcher. Johnson survived, promising more optimism than he could have ‘done what the people want’, but that by-election has not yet taken place, and a new report by a parliamentary committee investigating whether Johnson deliberately misled parliament is expected in the fall. Maybe another scam awaits Boris. Lame duck or fat pig – can Johnson stay at work longer? Most observers expect him to disappear in the next six to nine months – but I’m not surprised Bojo can escape once again!