Boris Johnson turns 59 on Monday, and Parliament will be debating a scathing report that concluded he had lied to the legislative body when trying to explain away that same party.
Such a sanction would be humiliating for a politician who, in 2019 led his party to an overwhelming victory at the ballet box and who has made no secret of the fact that he’d like his old job as prime minister back.
After seeing an early draft of the report, Johnson said that he was a victim of a witch hunt and promptly resigned his seat. If he had not resigned, the committee would have recommended a 90-day suspension, a remarkable slapdown, which could have led to his recall. If Johnson wants to become prime minister again, he will have to win a new parliamentary seat.
David Cameron, the British prime minister from 2010 to 2016, was summoned for another inquiry into the handling of covid-19. Britain recorded one of the world’s highest death tolls in the pandemic and Cameron was grilled on the preparations for the pandemic. Especially under Johnson, and his short-lived successor Liz Truss, Conservative governments have been weighed down by scandals. The ruling party is trailing the opposition Labour Party badly in the polls, but the government doesn’t need to hold an election before January 2025.
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