While Britain’s Queen Elizabeth was attending her husband’s funeral ceremony alone, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s team was attending a party at his Downing Street headquarters, at a time when the gathering of members of different families indoors was prohibited.
Johnson is currently facing the most critical crisis during his premiership, after a series of gatherings were revealed in Downing Street during the closure and ban imposed to limit the spread of the Corona virus, at a time when it might have been impossible for the average citizen to say goodbye to a dying soon.
After Johnson achieved a landslide electoral victory in 2019, he went out last Wednesday to apologize after revealing a drinking party at his official residence in the first period of closure due to Corona in Britain, and admitted that he was present at the ceremony.
But the newspaper “The Telegraph” revealed two other drinks parties were also held inside Downing Street on April 16, 2021, when there were restrictions on social meetings, whether in closed or open places. She said Johnson was at his country residence in Chequers that day.
The next day, Queen Elizabeth was bidding farewell to her husband Philip, who had died at the age of 99.
Alone in black and with a face covered in great sadness, the newspaper says, the 95-year-old stood with her head bowed while the body of her companion for 73 years was lowered to the royal hall in St. George’s Chapel.
party and music
In Downing Street, it was very different. Johnson’s team went to a nearby store to buy liquor, and used a laptop computer to stream music.
Johnson’s opponents demanded his resignation, casting him in the image of a two-faced man who demands that the people abide by some of the most painful rules in peacetime while his team frolics.
A small but growing number of Johnson’s Conservative Party joined these demands, fearing that these events would damage the party’s electoral prospects.
As for Johnson himself, 57, he gave multiple accounts of these parties, ranging from denying breaking any rules to understanding the anger at what appeared to be hypocrisy in the heart of the British state.
For its part, British police said yesterday, Thursday, that they will not open an investigation into the holding of gatherings at Johnson’s residence during the closure period due to Corona, unless an internal government investigation finds evidence of possible criminal wrongdoing.