In his first parliamentary appearance since the internal reprimand, which emerged victorious but taken, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson received questions about how the country can trust him when his MPs do not trust him.
London, Thanasis Gavos
Unshakable in his position that he will continue to lead the government despite the vote of no confidence against him by 148 Conservative MPs, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the House of Commons.
In his first parliamentary appearance since the internal reprimand, in which he emerged victorious but received, Mr Johnson received questions about how the country can trust him when his MPs do not.
Mr Johnson responded by saying “absolutely nothing and no one” would stop him from working to meet citizens’ priorities.
At the urging of opposition party MPs to resign, he said he was continuing his work.
The Times, meanwhile, dug up a 2006 article by Boris Johnson criticizing then-Prime Minister Tony Blair for failing to understand that it was time for him to step down.
“It is a wonderful and necessary fact of political biology that we never know when our time is up. Long after it is obvious to everyone that we are fleeing, we continue to believe in our ‘duty’ to hold on to the privileges of our positions. We make fun of ourselves for having to stay because ‘we would’ disappoint ‘people or that there is’ a job to be done’. “In fact, we are just terrified of decapitation,” the current Prime Minister had written.
He added that for politicians nothing is “easier or more natural” than postponing the day of their resignation.
He described Mr Blair as a “human burly”, a term used against him by Conservatives.
