London: Thanasis Gavos
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson apologized today after a report on the parties that took place on Downing Street during the quarantine spoke of serious failures in the heart of the government.
“I want to apologize,” Johnson told parliament.
Ms Gray criticized the “leadership failure and crisis” at the heart of the British government, stressing that many of the rallies she investigated should not have been allowed to take place and were not justified.
Mr Johnson reiterated that he understood the anger of the people from whom he had made great sacrifices in the midst of a pandemic.
“It’s not enough to apologize, but we have to look in the mirror,” he said, adding that he fully accepted Suu Kyi’s conclusion and her recommendation for changes in the way Downing Street and the Cabinet were set up.
He therefore announced, among other things, the establishment of an office of Prime Minister and the appointment of a permanent secretary at No. 10 in order to resolve what Sue Gray criticizes in her report as “fragmented and complex leadership structures”.
Opposition Labor leader Sir Kir Starmer has said that Boris Johnson is now under police investigation as the Gray report reveals that the Metropolitan Police are investigating a May 20, 2020 party in the Downing Street garden where Prime Minister that he attended, but also a gathering in the apartment of the prime minister couple on November 13, 2020, the night that Dominic Cummings was dismissed from the position of prime minister’s adviser.
Opposition groups called for Boris Johnson’s resignation, saying his predecessor, Theresa May, had criticized him for failing to comply with lockdown rules.
He did not, however, make any reference, at least in his introductory statement to parliament, to the possibility of resigning as he has been asked to do so even more intensely, following the publication of part of Sue Gray’s report by the opposition.
A spokesman for Boris Johnson had announced that the findings of the investigation were to be published today on the gov.uk website, as it finally was.
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