Boris Johnson and 'Partygate': he who lives by the Brexit sword, dies by the Brexit sword

By Ben Wellings, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University

Boris Johnson’s time as the United Kingdom’s prime minister is under immediate threat. Johnson, who likes a classical analogy, will know that civil servant Sue Grey’s imminent report into the “Partygate” scandal is the bureaucratic equivalent of the Sword of Damocles hanging over his head.

Johnson has been gravely damaged by the revelations of recent weeks that he attended gatherings and parties his own government had banned during the COVID lockdown of 2020, while some Britons’…

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