Mired in scandal, British PM Johnson fights to shore up authority

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Johnson admitted that problems needed to be fixed at the heart of Downing Street, which serves as both his home and the nerve centre of the British state.

Johnson, who in 2019 won the biggest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher, has repeatedly refused to resign over reports that he and some of his staff attended Downing Street parties during COVID-19 lockdowns.

Johnson's finance minister, Rishi Sunak, said pointedly that he would not have made such a remark. Starmer has cast Johnson's comment as a ridiculous slur - and conspiracy theory - that shows Johnson is unfit to be British leader. "The breach of trust that the events in No. 10 Downing Street represent, and the manner in which they have been handled, make his position untenable," Bell said.

Leading rivals within the Conservative Party include Chancellor of the Exchequer Sunak, 41, and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, 46.A spokesman for Johnson said the resignations of the prime minister's three top aides -- his chief of staff, principal private secretary and director of communications -- had been agreed in advance of Mirza's departure after the publication of a report into the alleged lockdown-busting parties that cited"serious failures of leadership".

 

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