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Boris Johnson fires ally and refuses to resign

Boris Johnson despide a aliado y se niega a dimitir

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, wounded by the resignation of some thirty members of his government and pressured by several others to resign, fired a key ally and clung Wednesday to a position that increasingly hangs in the balance.

The dismissal of Housing Minister Michael Gove — Johnson’s right-hand man in the 2016 Brexit campaign — dramatically exposed that the Conservative leader is not going to go down without a fight.

Local media had reported that Gove had asked Johnson to step down.

According to the local press, several executive heavyweights, including his hitherto stalwart defender Priti Patel, Home Secretary, went to Downing Street to tell him that he had lost the support of his Conservative Party and that he cannot continue.

"The prime minister is encouraged and will continue to fight", told Sky News James Duddridge, Johnson’s adviser.

The prime minister flatly refuses to resign, according to the British press.

"I really don’t think anyone in this country wants politicians now dedicate themselves to campaigning", he had previously affirmed before a committee formed by presidents of the different parliamentary commissions, ruling out calling early elections.

"The job of a prime minister in difficult circumstances, when a colossal mandate has been received, is to carry on and that is what I am going to do."he also assured before the plenary session of the House of Commons, listing his achievements and pending issues, such as the pressing cost-of-living crisis.

Opposition leader, Labor Keir Starmer, accused him of giving a "pathetic show" in "the last act of his political career".

This new chapter in the growing political crisis that the United Kingdom has been experiencing for months began when on Tuesday afternoon the Ministers of Health, Sajid Javid, and Finance, Rishi Sunak, announced their resignations at almost the same time.

Some 30 lower-ranking cabinet members followed them in a relentless bloodletting Wednesday of secretaries of state, while some of his most loyal aides strove to defend him.

– "Integrity" of the government – The resignations of Javid and Sunak took place hours after Johnson will apologize for the umpteenth time, acknowledging that he committed a "mistake" having appointed Chris Pincher, a conservative official who resigned last week accused of groping two men, one of them a deputy, to an important parliamentary position.

Having claimed otherwise, Downing Street acknowledged on Tuesday that the prime minister had been informed in 2019 of earlier allegations against Pincher, but had "forgotten".

The British expect the government to behave in a "competent" Y "would be" Y "this is why i resign"Sunak wrote. For his part, Javid considered that the British need "integrity on the part of your government".

According to a poll conducted on Wednesday by the Savanta ComRes cabinet, three out of five Conservative voters believe that Johnson cannot regain public confidence and 72% think he should resign.

– Maneuver against Johnson – The prime minister survived a vote of no confidence in early June by his own deputies, launched in an attempt to unseat him from power.

Supported by 211 of his 359 legislators, he saved the job, but the 148 votes against him made it clear that discontent did not stop growing.

The party rules state that this procedure cannot be repeated during the next year. But many are calling for a change to immediately try another move against Johnson.

From the so-called "partygate" -the scandal over the parties organized in Downing Street during the confinements of 2020 and 2021-, to the irregular financing of the luxurious reform of his official residence, going through accusations of cronyism, the scandals around Johnson multiply.

Champion of the legislative of 2019, having achieved the largest Conservative majority in decades thanks to the promise of delivering Brexit, the prime minister is now plummeting in the polls.

According to polls, a majority of Britons see him as a "liar".

will be investigated by a parliamentary commission to determine whether he knowingly misled deputies when in December he denied the celebration of parties that violated anticovid legislation.

And the fact that he claimed to be unaware of the accusations against Pincher, when many claimed otherwise, and ended up acknowledging his "forgot"reinforces the accusations that the prime minister is playing with the truth.

Recent electoral setbacks, the last ones on June 23, in two partial legislative elections, have convinced a growing number of rebels in the Conservative Party that Johnson can no longer lead them to a new general election in 2024.

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