Boris Johnson: Is the party finally over?
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The Times
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🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
After numerous allegations about parties at Downing Street during lockdown, what does the future hold for Boris Johnson? Is it game over?
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| 0:00.0 | It's been a politically perilous week for the Prime Minister. |
| 0:12.9 | The message from the public is clear. |
| 0:15.4 | Remove this unfit Prime Minister from office and do it no. |
| 0:19.7 | Will the Prime Minister for the good of the country accept that the party is over and |
| 0:25.4 | decide to resign? |
| 0:27.3 | We have seen standards and public life trashed. |
| 0:31.8 | So for once, can the Prime Minister do the honorable thing and resign? |
| 0:36.2 | Boris Johnson, in his defence, has been repeating a now familiar refrain. |
| 0:42.0 | All of that, as you know, is the subject of a proper investigation by Supreme. |
| 0:48.0 | But the evidence against him keeps mounting. |
| 0:51.0 | Labour have renewed their call for Boris Johnson to resign after his former adviser Dominic |
| 0:55.3 | Cummings accused the Prime Minister of lying to Parliament about a lockdown party in Downing |
| 1:00.6 | Street. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm deeply sorry for this judgment that were made. |
| 1:04.5 | I carry full responsibility for what took place. |
| 1:08.7 | But nobody told me, I'm absolutely categorical about this. |
| 1:12.2 | Nobody said to me, this is an event that is against the rules. |
| 1:16.7 | I should not go ahead. |
| 1:18.8 | What will Sue Gray's report tell us and has the country already made up its mind? |
| 1:24.9 | The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, he just went down to a party in lockdown. |
| 1:35.4 | Facing a backlash from voters, the Red Wall MPs who gave Boris his big majority are now |
| 1:41.8 | turning against him. |
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