Johnson is trying to implicate Sunak in the Partygate scandal

“The most dangerous man is the one who is afraid.” Boris Johnson supported this sentence by the German writer Ludwig Börne. The former Prime Minister, therefore, not only assured “with his heart in his hand” that he did not deliberately lie to Parliament when he denied that the Downing Street parties during the shutdown violated the provisions of his own Government; but along the way he tried to blow up his then minister of economy and the current minister into a scandal Prime Minister: Rishi Sunak.

“If it was obvious to me that these events were not in violation of the restrictions, it must have been equally obvious to dozens of people, including top government officials, most of whom, like me, are responsible for writing the rules. And it must have been obvious to others, including current prime minister,” Johnson announced during an expected appearance before a parliamentary committee investigating whether he deliberately misled MPs.

During the more than two and a half hours that his expected appearance lasted, which was broadcast on television, the former president Tory He decided on different strategies. He began by apologizing for the umpteenth time for what had happened. He then insisted that he was not at all the meetings, and when he did come, he only stayed for a few minutes, believing that they were “work meetings”. «If we had done something illegal, would we have allowed a Downing Street photographer to capture it? It’s unbelievable,” he continued.

But as the members of the commission, who in the event of a verdict against him could request his suspension or dismissal, asked him questions and interrogated him, he began to lose patience and went on the offensive. “Those who say we party during the quarantine simply do not know what they are talking about. Those who say that these events were exclusively social are mistaken, my goal was to thank and motivate the staff in difficult times,” he said regarding the events that took place in the winter of 2020. there was alcohol, food and music and regulations were not respected about social distancing.

Sunak’s taxes

While Johnson appeared, Sunak fulfilled another of his promises and released his tax return, which shows that the prime minister has paid £1m (€1.1m) over the past three years.

Sunak was accused of not being transparent about his wealth, especially when it was revealed that his wife, Akshata Murthythe daughter of an Indian potentate, she paid no tax because she was not resident for UK tax purposes.