Boris Johnson resigns as MP over ‘partygate’ report
‘Partygate’ refers to is a political scandal in the UK over parties and other gatherings of the Johnson government during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, at a time when public health restrictions prohibited gatherings.
UK’s Sky News is reporting that in an excoriating statement, the former Prime Minister said a letter from the privileges committee made clear "that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of parliament".
As a result, Mr Johnson said: "I have written to my association in Uxbridge and South Ruislip to say that I am stepping down forthwith and triggering an immediate by-election.
"I am very sorry to leave my wonderful constituency. It has been a huge honor to serve them, both as Mayor and MP."
The former Prime Minister had angrily accused the investigation of trying to drive him out, and claimed there was a “witch-hunt underway, to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result”.
In a bitter 1,000-word statement, he attacked Rishi Sunak’s government, blaming the current prime minister for rising taxes, not being Conservative enough, and failing to make the most of Brexit.
Johnson leaving parliament
Johnson hinted that he may try to make a return to politics, saying he was “very sad to be leaving parliament – at least for now”.
Johnson’s departure from political life comes less than four years after he won an 80-seat political majority and nine months after he stood down as prime minister after a police fine for breaking his own Covid rules.
Moving forward, the resignation will trigger an immediate byelection in Johnson’s Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.
While as Prime Minister of the UK, Johnson’s Government had called CoI into the affairs of the [British] Virgin Islands while he refused to have one on his government, saying the time was not a good one due to COVID.
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Anointed by Empire and Colonialism with unilateral power, the Colonialists in the UK and at Mount Olympus on behalf of the crown adopts the same do as I, not as I do attitude, behavior, and expectations, for they are specially entitled, priviledged, and superior to the colonized , especially people of African descent. Mount Olympus is embolden by the Sambos who want social acceptance of a higher level and some measured of meritorious manumission, etc. They exhibit the shameless behaviour for their personal interest at the expense of what I say best for the territory and fellow countrymen, thinking that Colonialists are into them. They put on fake smiles, most anyway, in their presence and become the butt of jokes in private.