2023-06-12 21:06:14
A year following his departure from Downing Street, the shadow of Boris Johnson continued to hang over British politics. The ball of “partygate” got the better of hopes of returning to the top and pushed him to slam the door of Parliament with a bang.
Johnson is a brilliant entertainer, but unfit for national office, as it seems he only cares regarding his fate and personal satisfaction
If this political outfielder has often been able to thwart the forecasts and get out of the most inextricable situations when his fall was predicted, his resignation announced on Friday evening puts an end to any possibility of returning to the head of a government before the legislative elections scheduled for l ‘next year.
A sign of his unfailing optimism, the one who remains for many Britons the one who achieved Brexit once morest all odds had he not attempted a return less than two months following his departure, following the economic debacle caused by the one who succeeded him, Liz Truss?
He ended up giving up, leaving the way open to Rishi Sunak, and returned to his new career as a speaker at conferences bringing him millions of euros, he who often had to take advantage of the largesse of his wealthy allies to finance his lifestyle. But his considerable influence within the Conservative Party, lacking a compass following 13 years in power, was then clearly felt.
Certain passages of the long press release from the former journalist and mayor of London – who describes his forced departure as “undemocratic” – are almost akin to a candidacy announcement, recalling his record and trouncing the Conservative government in place.
“Just a few years following winning the largest majority in nearly half a century, that majority is now clearly under threat,” he storms. “Our party urgently needs to regain momentum and faith in what this country can do.”
Messy straw hair, communicative and messy energy, Boris Johnson, a formidable winning machine during the Brexit storm in 2019, had become a losing machine for the Conservatives, who ended up pushing him out last July.
At the forefront of the scandals: the parties organized in Downing Street during the confinements. Boris Johnson, who himself almost died of Covid-19, highlighted the success of the vaccination campaign and his early commitment to support Ukraine, where he remains close to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The fall was brutal for this biographer of Winston Churchill, who before becoming an MP in 2001, had followed the marked path of the British elite, Eton College then Oxford University. At the time, some teachers already denounced in him a lack of seriousness and a propensity to believe himself above the rules.
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, born in New York on June 19, 1964 and who, according to his sister, wanted to become “the king of the world” as a child, had previously always got out of all situations.
In 1987, he was a trainee journalist at the Times thanks to family connections. He was quickly fired for a made-up quote. The Daily Telegraph fishes him out and sends him to Brussels in 1989, where with outrages and approximations, he turns the European institutions into ridicule.
Back in London, he became a political columnist for the Telegraph and the Spectator, also writing car reviews for GQ magazine. He is funny, erudite, powerful.
He entered Parliament in 2001, quickly fired from the opposition’s “ghost cabinet” for lying regarding an affair.
Then he took the mayor of London from Labor in 2008, at the time pro-European and pro-immigration.
He stayed there for eight years, carved out an international stature, helped by the Olympic Games.
He then became one of the main figures in the Brexit campaign, then head of diplomacy under Theresa May, and replaced her as Prime Minister in July 2019.
“He’s a brilliant performer, but unfit for national office, as it seems he only cares regarding his fate and his personal satisfaction,” his former boss Max Hastings told the Telegraph of him.
Married three times, he is regarding to have his eighth child and the third from his marriage in 2020 with Carrie Symonds, 35, a former Conservative party communications officer.
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