According to close sources, the soon-to-be ex-prime minister Boris Johnson complained about the unfairness of months of reports of law-breaking at Downing street. Apparently, he considered the reports to be choreographed by hostile media, biased against his role in securing Britain’s departure from the European Union.
As power began slipping from his grip, Johnson became an increasingly angry figure who felt that many in what he called the ‘British establishment’ were aiming to oust him because of his spearheading the Brexit campaign
The Conservative was either unable or unwinning to win back public support. His policymakers were increasingly embarrassed by having to defend the leader’s remarks and actions. What felt like a never-ending stream of scandals was becoming impossible to justify or explain amid widespread public anger, several lawmakers said.
Many had voted for Johnson to deliver Brexit but were then confronted with a prime minister they could not trust.
Instead of attempting to placate their worries, Johnson became increasingly isolated, surrounded by yes-men that did little to convince him of the consequences he was being faced with for his self-pity regarding Brexit.
Instead of resigning with rising pressure to quit, Johnson thought he was at his best when backed into a corner and was convinced he could fight and deliver what he felt was his hard-won mandate to govern the country.
Even after being publicly ridiculed in parliament where lawmakers in his Conservative Party told him to resign to his face, and others openly laughed at him, it was only when a group of ministers and his closest colleagues appealed to Johnson that he decided to go.
“Yesterday, I made it clear to the Prime Minister alongside my colleagues in No10 that there was only one direction where this was going, and he should leave with dignity,” Nadhim Zahawi, the newly elected Finance Minister wrote in an open letter on Thursday.
“Prime Minister, you know in your heart what the right thing to do is, and go now.”
Boris Johnson made enemies early on in his ministerial career, taking on the establishment and, according to some civil servants, bending, or even breaking the rules.
Johnson had an unabashedly populist agenda to reshape how Britain had been governed. However, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in December 2019 pushed Johnson’s Brexit agenda aside, and the pandemic dominated the early months of his premiership.
The initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic set the tone. At first, the ex-prime minister downplayed the severity of the virus but was forced to change his stance when scientific projections showed that a quarter of a million people could die in the United Kingdom. He then shut down the country, advising people to stay home.
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