UK PM faces wrath of MPs following partygate report
Saeed Pourreza
Press TV, London
It took months to prepare, but its finally here. Civil Servant Sue Grey's report into allegations of rule breaking parties under the British Prime Minister's roof during pandemic lockdowns.
A report Boris Johnson repeatedly told Britons would be a moment of truth. But only a day earlier, revelations the Prime Minister met with Sue Grey allegedly to try and change her mind about publishing it. And before that a police investigation that handed him, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and several others a penalty.
The report that blames top officials for breaking lockdown rules, also comes in the wake of new photos of the PM toasting his departing head of communications during the second national lockdown, pictures that to many crossed the line.
Soon after the report was released, a seemingly repentant Boris Johnson, who had initially told parliament no rules had been broken, faced the wrath of MPs, including the opposition leader, himself facing a police investigation for allegedly breaching lockdown restrictions.
As much as the Prime Minister hopes the country would move on from Partygate, experts say Grey's conclusions could revive calls from Conservative MPs for a no-confidence vote in him. If he lost such a vote, he would lose his job.
Johnson has clung on to power so far, partly because the Russian military intervention in Ukraine diverted public and political attention. And he plans to keep it diverted by expediting a relief package to help vulnerable Britons against the cost of living crisis. Will that help him survive politically, is a matter of wait and see.
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