UK PM broke laws he told country to follow; UK MPs want Boris to resign
Mr Johnson, who was fined by police on April 13, 2022, for attending a birthday party thrown for him in Downing Street in June 2020, when large indoor gatherings were banned, claimed he didn't know the birthday gathering thrown in his honor was an illegal party.
According to CNN, Johnson offered members of Parliament what he called a "whole-hearted apology" on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, as he attempted to stem the rule-dodging scandal that has derailed his premiership.
But he added it "did not occur to me then or subsequently" that the gathering "could amount to a breach of the rules."
Officers are still investigating various other gatherings held in the heart of government during the Covid-19 crisis, and Johnson may receive more penalties in the coming weeks.
Calls for PM Johnson to resign
The scandal, dubbed "Partygate," has led to calls for Johnson to quit and sunk his party in opinion polls.
Labour leader Keir R. Starmer called Johnson's Tuesday statement "a joke." He added: "The public have made up their mind; they don't believe a word the prime minister says. They know what he is."
Hours before Johnson arrived at Parliament, the Speaker of the House dealt him another blow by allowing a vote on Thursday on whether he misled lawmakers in his initial denials of wrongdoing.
Political commentators however note that Johnson is likely to survive Thursday's vote given his Conservative party's majority in Parliament. However, at least one senior Conservative MP -- Mark Harper -- joined calls for Johnson to resign.
Johnson not worthy to remain PM- UK MP
"I regret to say that we have a Prime Minister who broke the laws that he told the country they had to follow, hasn't been straightforward about it," said Harper, the former whip. "I'm very sorry to have to say this, but I no longer think he is worthy of the great office that he holds."
Johnson claimed in December that he had been assured "there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken." It has since emerged he attended a number of events himself, including the birthday party for which he was penalised by police.
Excessive drinking; Failure of leadership
An internal inquest, separate to the ongoing police investigation, has uncovered multiple parties, a culture of excessive drinking and a "failure of leadership" in Johnson's government while the rest of the country was living under strict rules on social mixing.
CNN said Johnson is looking to stem the scandal before a round of local elections in early May, the first serious test of his Conservative Party since reports of the gatherings emerged.
Johnson Gov’t sponsored CoI in VI during pandemic
It should be noted that the same PM Johnson callously backed a Commission of Inquiry into governance in the [British] Virgin Islands during the COVID-19 pandemic, while dodging a CoI into his own government’s handling of the pandemic.
Johnson is a close associate of controversial former VI governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert, who announced the CoI in the VI on Martin Luther King Jr Day, January 18, 2021.
Mr Jaspert was known to be at loggerheads with the democratically elected government led by Premier Andrew A. Fahie (R1), who has made it clear that the VI must prepare itself for the inevitable position of self-determination.
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14 Responses to “UK PM broke laws he told country to follow; UK MPs want Boris to resign”
The COI in the BVI is to be welcomed by the people of the BVI as an attempt to hold its political class accountable. The fact that the UK system is slow to act in its own case is a sign of its own corruption; the COI is hypocrisy but not racism. The COI is an opportunity to prevent the BVI reaching further depths that are pretty much guaranteed without intervention.
The vaccines saved lives so weird to not to Appreciate them and the COI was requested by Fat Albert.