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Britain: “Game over” for Boris Johnson? – Faced with “tough” questions from MPs

The British newspapers of national traffic outline its future very darkly Boris Johnson in charge. They talk about “chaos” in government considering in fact that it is about “tragedy”. The Tory prime minister is facing the biggest crisis of his tenureafter the resignations of Rishi Sunak from the office of the Minister of Finance and they Sajid Javid abandoned that of the Minister of Health.

“game over”concludes the headline of the newspaper’s main article The Timeswhose editorial says Mr Johnson’s “mistake” was that he remained “hooked” on powerbecause so “he lost the confidence of his party and the country».

“There is no way” the leader of the Conservatives, “that he failed to secure it support of 148 MPs in the vote of confidence last month, to regain his authority and lead effectively, which the country needs at a time of acute national crisis,” the Times text continues.

“Every day he remains (in power), he deepens the sense of chaos. For the good of the country, he must go“, ends up.

On the inside pages, columnist Ian Martin describes “chaos” in government and expresses little hope for Nadeem Zahawi, the new finance minister.

THE “Team Boris”he says characteristically, turned out to be a desperate attempt to find “someone, anyone, willing to take on the second most important political position of the country and risk becoming the most short-lived finance minister” in history, as Mr. Martin warns.

He also notes that the former Minister of Health Jeremy Hunt and Defense Secretary Ben Wallace are among Mr. Johnson’s potential successors.

In the Telegraph, former Brexit Secretary David Frost believes Mr Johnson should resign because otherwise “he will take the party and the government with him” falling; he adds that after yesterday’s resignations, “and other members of the government must examine whether and to what extent they are truly satisfied with the direction of the country».

For the Daily Express, Mr Johnson is “wounded”but at the same time “liberated”. The paper claims on its front page that the Tory leader will stick to the plan to push through big tax cuts.

Daily Mail columnist Stephen Glover praised the British prime minister, whom he looks up to “an excellent politician”, “a head above almost all other members” of the current government.

THE Boris Johnson will go down in history and will be respected because he managed to complete it Brexit, judge, despite “its main flaw”, his “hesitation” to tell the truth, something that accompanied him from the time he was a journalist, i.e. practicing a profession that “is not distinguished for its truthfulness”, as reported by the Athens News Agency. But “after everything that has happened and despite his achievements, he seems doomed” to leave Downing Street, adds Mr Glover, estimating that it is “tragedy”.

Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee believes the manner and exact timing of Mr Johnson’s departure are “the only questions that remain to be answered”.

“Few expect that it will come down to the battle of the next election”, while in case it is held “new vote of confidence”, practically “all” indications point to the fact that “he will lose”, she discounts herself.

Faced with tough questions from MPs, Johnson

The British Prime Minister will be confronted today with tough questions by the deputies, with the his stay in the prime ministership to be tested after the resignations of ministers who said he was unfit to rule Britain.

Johnson’s finance and health ministers resigned yesterday along with a number of deputy ministers, saying they would no longer remain in government after the scandals that have marred his government in recent months.

A growing number of members of the ruling Conservative Party have said it is game over for Johnson. However, he showed his determination to remain prime minister by appointing Nadeem Zahawi, a former education minister, to the position of finance minister, while he made other appointments to fill some vacant positions in his government.

The level of hostility with which Johnson is facing off within his party will become clear later today when he appears before MPs for the weekly question-and-answer session, before facing the chairmen of parliamentary committees later for two hours.

“I suspect we’ll have to get him off her Downing Street kicking and screaming,” a conservative lawmaker told Reuters on condition of anonymity. “If we’re going to do it this way, then we’re going to do it,” he added.

Johnson’s leadership has been marred by scandals and irregularities in recent months, with police fining the British prime minister for flouting restrictions put in place to contain COVID-19 and an incriminating report issued over his conduct officials in the prime minister’s office for the same reason.

At the same time, there were back-and-forths and an MP’s poor defense of lobbying rules and criticism that Johnson was not doing enough to tackle the rising cost of living, as many Britons struggle to cope with rising fuel and food prices.

The latest scandal has forced Johnson to explain why he appointed an MP to a party discipline role despite being aware of past allegations of sexual misconduct.

The developments forced Rishi Sunak to resign from the finance ministry and Sajid Javid from the health ministry, with around a dozen other deputy ministers and officials leaving their posts.

Source: News Beast

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