Britain: 70% of citizens in favor of the resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Johnson scandals are causing Tory polls to plummet.

Downing Street parties are coming under increasing pressure for Boris Johnson, according to a Spiegel article. His party’s poll numbers are miserable. The first calls for his resignation came from his own classes.

Demands for the resignation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are growing. While the opposition has been demanding it for a long time, members of the Conservative Party are increasingly distancing themselves from Johnson. They fear they could be severely punished by their constituents, according to Spiegel. “Unfortunately, the prime minister’s position has become unstable,” said Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen, a former Johnson supporter. “It’s time to leave the stage,” he said.

The background to Bridget’s demands for his resignation is likely to be the deterioration of Conservative polls.

According to a poll by the public opinion research institute Savanta ComRes, the opposition Labor Party’s lead over Johnson’s conservative Tories has risen by ten percentage points. In the poll, Labor received 42% (increase of 5 percentage points), Conservatives at 32% (down by one percentage point). 70% of the 2,151 respondents were in favor of Johnson’s resignation. The next general elections will normally take place in 2024.

The cause of the latest wave of outrage in Britain is the latest media reports of a further party at Johnson’s official residence on Downing Street in London. According to the Daily Telegraph, not only were they celebrated despite current coronation restrictions, but they also took place on the eve of the funeral of Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s wife, last April. Johnson had to apologize for partying at his official residence for the second time this week on Friday – but this time directly to the Queen.

“It’s deeply saddening that this happened at a time of national mourning,” a Johnson spokesman told reporters at the party, according to Reuters. They apologized to the palace.

The spokesman added that Johnson was at the Checkers Mansion on the day of the celebrations, April 16, 2021. He was also not invited to any meeting.

However, the Mirror later reported that Johnson regularly saw Friday night wine in his office and encouraged his staff to “separate the steam”. During the lockdown, Johnson himself watched a handful of these rallies. It was only on Wednesday that the prime minister apologized to parliament for attending a garden party in May 2020 amid the first lockdown on the coronavirus.

According to the Telegraph, the celebrations of April 2021 must have been frantic. The workers allegedly bought large quantities of alcohol at a nearby supermarket, played music on a laptop and broke a cot belonging to Johnson’s son. All of this is said to have happened, although there were restrictions on gatherings of people from different households due to the pandemic.

It is also particularly critical that the country mourned with Queen Elizabeth II for her husband, who died at the age of 99. The day after the party, the queen said goodbye to her husband in the chapel of St. George and sat alone in a row of stalls due to restrictions on the coronavirus.