LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Premiership is in a balance on Thursday when he faces a call from his conservative party to resign after he claimed to attend a party at the official residence during the lock.
Johnson on Wednesday issued a “sincere apology” for attending the meeting at Downing Street in May 2020, told parliament, he understood public anger on revelation.
The senior ministers rose around to offer support to their leaders, who won the victory of landslide elections in 2019, although the media said the support of the Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, was considered a replacement of Johnson’s potential, emerging lukewarms.
Others are more direct.
The conservative leader in Scotland, along with a handful of leading parliamentarians, called for Johnson to resign, said his position could not be maintained.
“The mood is not good,” said the conservative member of Parliament Jake Berry to BBC radio.
“There was a lot of concern among my colleagues about the damage made by this revelation to the conservative party.
But I thought yesterday there was a little opinion behind.” Johnson admitted for the first time on Wednesday he joined the meeting held at Downing Street Park on May 20, 2020, said he had stayed for about 25 minutes to thank the staff on what he thought was a workshot.
He said he regretted the action.
Media reports say tables in the garden are set for food and wine, while the invitation sent to around 100 people suggests taking advantage of beautiful weather.
“Bring your own liquor”, he said.
At that time, social contact was limited to the minimum and many people were very angry so they could not visit loved ones about their deaths or attend the funeral.
In response to the opponent’s demands for his resignation, Johnson said people need to wait for the results of an internal investigation conducted by Senior Civil Servants Sue Gray, whose reports are expected in the next two weeks.
Revelation of this party followed a similar charges on the breakdown of the rules by Johnson and his previous official in May 2020 and during Christmas locking at the end of the year.
A series of scandals includes allegations of corruption and “Sleaze”, or self-dishonesty, have made public angry and handling Covid-19 government and contracting for protective equipment has been widely criticized.
Yugov’s poll for the Times newspaper, was carried out before Johnson’s apology, placed the Labor Party’s opposition 10 percentage points in front of the conservatives, who led him to evaporate.
The conservative party was famous for cruel in expenses with leaders who were feared to damage their election opportunities, which recently forced Theresa to be power after three years in the midst of the internal quarrel Brexit.
To trigger the leadership challenges, 54 of the 360 ​​conservative members elected parliamentary (parliamentary members) must write a letter without trust to the chairman of the “1922 party committee”, with a small number saying that they have written letters like that.
Many parliamentarians are said to be waiting for the results of Gray’s report before taking any action, the newspaper said, while the local council selection may also be very important in determining whether Johnson will face a rebellion.
“I think Boris Johnson is the right person to become our country’s prime minister, I think he is the prime minister who will win the next general election,” Northern Ireland Minister Brandon Lewis said told BBC TV.