More bad news for Boris Johnson: the Conservative Party, led by the Prime Minister, received an election slap on Thursday, December 16, in a by-election in North Shropshire, a rural constituency in the west of the Midlands, in the hands of the Tories for almost two centuries. Liberal Democrat candidate Helen Morgan, 46, an accountant by trade, won the vote 6,000 ahead of Conservative candidate Neil Shastri-Hurst. She has successfully exploited the discredit suffered by Mr Johnson and his party, after a long series of scandals and political missteps.
Constituency voters “Were appalled by the lack of decency” Prime Minister, said Mr.me Morgan when the results were announced on Friday. “The people of North Shropshire have spoken on behalf of all British people. They said loud and clear: “Boris Johnson, the party is over.” (…) The other prime ministers had a sense of the national interest, but with Boris Johnson, what matters is always him and never the others. Our country is calling for a new leader. Mr. Johnson, you are not a leader ”, added the young woman, without sparing her blows.
This constituency had been held since 1997 by Owen Paterson, a brexiter close to the prime minister, who had to resign from the House of Commons in November, after being sanctioned by the parliamentary committee in charge of ethics for selling lobbying services. by using his elected position. His cause was indefensible, but Boris Johnson still tried to force the hand of elected Conservatives by forcing a vote in Parliament to suspend the sanction against Mr. Paterson – and, by the way, to try to weaken the powers of the ethics commission.
Parties in Downing Street in full lockdown
The maneuver was rude. It appalled within the Tories and Mr Johnson had to give it up within hours. But it has triggered unprecedented media attention to the questionable practices of a large number of elected conservatives accumulating, in addition to their positions as deputies with comfortable remunerations, often very lucrative services.
Since the beginning of December, the revelations are linked, also, on parties organized in Downing Street or at the headquarters of the Conservative Party, at the end of 2020, when at the time, the British were banned from gatherings. If Mr Johnson persists in denying the existence of these holidays, the evidence is mounting. Latest scoop: Thursday, Guardian, said, citing anonymous sources, that the Prime Minister had participated in a pot with his colleagues on May 15, 2020 in Downing Street, in full lockdown. Even Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican Church, said he was ” disappointed ” at the microphone of the BBC.
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