The sudden resignation adds to the sense of crisis around the UK PM, who swept to power on a promise to ‘get Brexit done’.
| The UK minister in charge of post-Brexit negotiations has resigned from Boris Johnson’s government, openly undermining the British Prime Minister over both his negotiations with the European Union and his response to a surge in coronavirus cases.
It’s clear he and Mr Johnson were at odds for some time. Lord Frost explained that he offered to quit a week ago and that the pair agreed he’d move on in January, but theIt couldn’t come atThe exit of a pivotal figure in his inner sphere comes on the heels of a series of scandals and political blows that have eroded Mr Johnson’s authority and raised questions of how long he can cling to power. The Tories are at war with themselves over how to combat the rapid spread of the omicron variant.
Indeed, a series of unforced errors, a steady slow-drip of headlines exposing double standards and conflicts of interest among Conservatives have all but evaporated any goodwill he once enjoyed.On Friday, the civil servant charged with investigating allegations that government officials held lockdown-busting parties last year had to quit because he himself had hosted a similar gathering.
In the same week, Mr Johnson suffered both humiliating defeat in a byelection in a historically safe Tory seat and the biggest Conservative rebellion of his tenure when 100 members of Parliament opposed his strategy for clamping down on the new variant.
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