In British politics, tradition dictates that there’s no greater crime than lying to one of the world’s oldest parliaments.
sensationally quit politics on Friday night after receiving a copy of a devastating independent report that found he had misled Parliament.
Johnson has decided to quit in anger rather than face the consequences of his actions, and an embarrassing defeat by his own voters. One of Johnson’s few remaining loyalists—who coincidentally was knighted by Johnson just hours before he quit—claimed his former boss was hounded out. “Disgraceful treatment of a political leader who has made world history,” said Sir Michael Fabricant.
“When I left office last year the government was only a handful of points behind in the polls. That gap has now massively widened,” he said, highlighting the dismal performance of Liz Truss and then Sunak who followed him into Downing Street.
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