In a career filled with scandals, one finally caught up to him.
, maintaining his wry tone even as he described his ouster as "painful" and "eccentric."
That followed months of drip-drip revelations that Downing Street had hosted boozy parties while the U.K. was in a strict COVID lockdown. "He compounded the frustrations of his lieutenants by forcing them to defend positions — "there were no parties in Downing Street," "he wasn't aware of the concerns about Pincher" — that turned out to be fiction.Perhaps most damaging of alland have suffered a string of embarrassing defeats in recent special elections.
He said in Thursday's address that the timetable will be released next week, and he assured the Cabinet that he won't take major policy steps in the interim.
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