Opinion: Boris Johnson’s three years of power will leave no lasting legacy. Except perhaps one that he will never bring himself to acknowledge, writes Geoffrey Robertson
In Westminster last week, it was “Carry on up Downing Street” as every few minutes ministers of the Crown entered No. 10 Downing Street to resign and then emerge to tell the media they were concerned about “integrity in government” – a value they had never much bothered about during Boris Johnson’s three years in power.” Johnson responded to stories about the carousing at No. 10 – until the photos emerged of him raising a glass to these breaches of his own law.
Johnson did everything possible to cling on to power except, of course, to apologise. At one point, he was minded to ask the Queen to use her reserve power to call an election so he could stay on to lead the Tories. Australians will be amused at how rapidly the message came back from the palace that Her Majesty would do no such thing. Her “reserve power” was last used in 1975 to sack Gough Whitlam, so it seems that the lesson of the “dismissal” has been learnt.
cannot be resolved and Scotland is itching to secede. The pound sinks as inflation rises. Eventually, the country will have to rejoin the single market.and is sure to blast his initial insouciance about COVID-19 – many died because he did not take it seriously at the start, while some of the contracts his government placed with Tories and their friends may be denounced as corrupt.
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