


“He knows he’s dishonest and incapable of changing, so he drags everybody else down with him,” said Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party. Opposition lawmakers hammered the prime minister for flouting the rules he imposed on others and accused him of misleading Parliament when he claimed that none of the social gatherings held in his office had been improper. Johnson’s political resilience did not mask the weighty legal and constitutional issues at stake. The war in Ukraine and a lack of obvious successors to him have conspired to keep him in his job, at least for now.īut Mr. Johnson tried to move on from a scandal over illicit Downing Street parties that has threatened his hold on power. LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced Parliament on Tuesday as an awkward pioneer in British politics: a confirmed lawbreaker who misled fellow lawmakers but remains ensconced in the nation’s highest elected office.Īpologizing profusely for his recent police fine for breaching coronavirus restrictions, Mr.
