Outgoing Prime Minister to make more money as he weighs chances of a return to Downing Street
Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street a failed politician. His persistent ambition to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ends three years after Theresa May’s replacement and as a result of a revolt by MPs and ministers. The mandate is short and the end, soulless. His retirement was a confirmation of his role and an effort to pave the way for his return.
Johnson has in recent days exposed the short-sightedness of previous governments by failing to see the importance of developing nuclear energy; to praise the industry that enables the commissioning of a nuclear-powered submarine; or presiding over the recruitment of more police who specialize in intervening in particularly dangerous areas.
He also visited Kiev, where Volodymyr Zelensky awarded him the Order of Freedom, the highest award the Ukrainian state awards to foreigners. His supporters and himself highlight as achievements of his mandate the culmination of Brexit, vaccination during the pandemic and his pioneering and constant support for Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion. The latter, of the three, is the one that generates the greatest consensus, as a positive achievement and as a personal credit to Johnson.
Last Friday, his office published the opinion of two lawyers whom the government has consulted about the inquiry by a parliamentary committee into Boris Johnson’s conduct in the extraordinary saga of the parties and meetings that were staged in Downing Street, which in many cases did not involve the rules were met of incarceration.
The House of Commons Privileges Committee will question witnesses, publicly and behind closed doors, to understand whether Johnson lied to parliament. If the committee finds that he has misled MPs, a motion could be tabled to the full House declaring that the elected officials for Uxbridge and Ruislip South (west London) have violated Parliament.
There is no fixed penalty for such a mistake. The regulations, based on the assumption that all deputies and ministers are ‘gentlemen’, assume that the moral condemnation of their colleagues would lead to the resignation of the culprit. Johnson has hired good attorneys, at taxpayer expense, who argue that the commission must demonstrate that the defendant “intended to lie.”
This mixture of lies will keep Johnson’s trail alive in the early weeks of Liz Truss’s tenure. The unemployed person’s desire to polish his reputation in his penultimate act is fueling speculation that he, like his admirers Winston Churchill and Benjamin Disraeli, wants to return to Downing Street to once again become the country’s leader.
The British media assures that for the time being he will devote himself to making money on the conference and speech circuit, writing books and possibly columns in the ‘Daily Telegraph’. With those same duties and when he was less well known, he was already making more money than as prime minister.
Source: La Verdad
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