LONDON, MAY 03 – Boris Johnson continues to consider himself an “honest” politician in response to the allegations of dishonesty that the opposition – Labor in the head – are making in particular due to the so-called Partygate scandal (for which he was recently fined in first person from the police) relating to the gatherings organized in Downing Street in violation of the anti Covid restrictions in force between 2020 and 2021. Interviewed on the morning talk show Good Morning Britain, on ITV, where he reappeared today after 5 years two days from a round of local administrative elections that could cost his party and perhaps his own leadership dearly, the British Tory premier has returned to admit having said inaccuracies in the past to Parliament (when ruling out violations of the rules in contested venues), but d ‘having done so in good faith: “inadvertently”. “I was wrong and I apologized for this” in the House of Commons, he stressed by replying to the interviewer who pressed him asking to respond to that part of public opinion that considers him a liar. He then insisted that he does not intend to step down, but he wants to “get on with the job” of prime minister. Among the topics of the electoral campaign, Johnson also touched on that of the high bills triggered by the increase in world energy costs linked to the post-pandemic and the first effects of the sanctions for the Russian invasion of Ukraine: claiming to his government of having allocated 9 billion pounds in subsidies, but admitting that there is a need to do “even more” in support of the most exposed families, communities and businesses. (HANDLE).
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