Former u k pm johnson quits as mp over ‘partygate’
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s angry departure from Parliament over COVID lockdown-breaking parties sparked fevered speculation on Saturday over his and the current government’s future, with allies and enemies trading barbs.Mr. Johnson announced he was leaving as a Member of Parliament on Friday, claiming he had been forced out in a stitch-up by his political opponents.
One of Mr. Johnson’s allies quit earlier on Friday, while another resigned-on Saturday, triggering three by-elections and heaping pressure on current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
The 58-year-old Mr. Johnson has been under investigation by a cross-party committee about whether he deliberately lied to Parliament over parties when he was in office. In evidence earlier this year, he insisted he had not.
But as the committee prepares to make public its findings, he said they had contacted him “making it clear... they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament”.
By quitting, Mr. Johnson avoids the consequences of a humiliating fight to remain an MP in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency in northwest London where he holds a slim majority of just over 7,000.
He denounced the committee, chaired by veteran Opposition Labour MP Harriet Harman, as a “kangaroo court”.
“It is very sad to be leaving Parliament — at least for now — but above all I am bewildered that I can be forced out, anti-democratically... with such egregious bias,” he said.
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