UK MPs React To Boris Johnson’s Shock Resignation From Parliament – ‘Straight Out Of Trump Playbook’
deadline.comThe reaction to Boris Johnson’s abrupt exit from the UK Parliament where he was previously Prime Minister has been as polarised as you would expect of a politician who, according to his allies remained a unique election-winner and singlehandedly led the nation through Brexit and the Covid pandemic but, to his critics, signified deceit, corruption and all that is wrong with modern politics.
His former Home Secretary Priti Patel – who has been made a Dame in Johnson’s resignation honours list – said: “Boris Johnson has served our country and his constituency with distinction.
He led world in supporting Ukraine, got Brexit done, and was our most electorally successful Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher.
Boris is a political titan whose legacy will stand the test of time.” And fellow Conservative MP Michael Fabricant, who has been knighted, called his departure: ‘Disgraceful treatment of a political leader who has made world history.’ Another MP on that side of the Chamber, Andrea Jenkyns, wrote in a leaked WhatsApp message, quoted by the Spectator magazine: “The blob has won, Boris the best PM since Thatcher.” Unsurprisingly, members of the opposition Labour were not so crestfallen.
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