(ANSA) – LONDON, JUN 07 – The tension in British politics remains high for now after the internal vote of the Tory majority on the distrust of Boris Johnson, from which the prime minister – involved in recent months in the so-called Partygate scandal – only saved himself only for the broken cap, with 211 votes in favor against 148 hostile among the deputies of his own party.
The calls of the premier and his ministers to the rebels to accept the result, to rejoin the ranks and to move forward on the economic and political priorities of the country does not seem to break through the critical voices for now. While the opposition – Labor and Scottish independence activists of the SNP in the lead – brand Johnson as “a walking corpse” and target the Conservative Party tout court for keeping him in the saddle despite the scandal and discontent thanks to the vote of 211 deputies “without spine”. The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, for his part announces a demonstrative motion of no confidence against the premier also in the House of Commons, whose admission to the vote is not obvious: a motion in any case without hope, since the Tories have a majority of eighty of seats and in the midst of their divisions they certainly do not want an early election; but destined to try to create some further embarrassment.
Meanwhile, the Financial Times and the Times evoke a “wounded” BoJo, the progressive Guardian sees him “humiliated”, while even the pro-conservative Daily Telegraph questions the strength of his authority in the face of such a high and apparently high number of rebels determined to continue to “besiege” him.
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Source: Ansa
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