UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson won his confidence vote Monday evening, a lightning poll of top Conservatives after a challenge was announced just this morning.
While Boris Johnson has been met with resistance from within the party since his first day in office, predominantly from the once-powerful pro-Europe, anti-Brexit wing of the Conservative Party, speculation about his leadership has grown in recent months over his handling of the Coronavirus lockdown rules.
Although the United Kingdom was not ultimately the toughest — stopping short of the mandatory vaccination policies seen in some countries — the country was nevertheless locked down hard and early by Boris Johnson’s government. While otherwise freedom-loving Britons seemed apparently happy, pollsters claimed, with the measures at the time disquiet built as it became clear the government hadn’t followed its own rules.
Government spokesmen, the Prime Minister included, maintained they believed the rules had been followed at all times, even though a police investigation subsequently handed out fines for illegal behaviour for senior politicians and civil servants, the Prime Minister included.
This perceived failure by Boris Johnson and other senior figures to follow their own rules was cited at length in anbeing shared between Conservative MPs over the weekend laying out the case to depose Boris as leader. Claiming that the PM had gone from being an asset to a liability, the document said the Prime Minister was now so unpopular that his brand was robbing even popular Conservative policies of their ability to cut through and please voters.
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