British Prime Minister is abroad throwing his weight into the Ukraine crisis. A canceled phone conversation with the Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely be revived: A leader getting on with his job, it seems.
But in his brief absence the embers of the damning Sue Gray report are still glowing.
Its eleven pages make it official that the whole episode is the result of “failures of leadership and judgment,” that many of the events, these gatherings in Downing St and other offices, “should not have been allowed to take place or should not have been allowed to develop as they did.”
The excessive consumption of alcohol was singled out and criticised.
It’s clear that Boris Johnson has every intention of rearranging the way his teams are run from now on. There will be sackings and there will be new appointments. For the Prime Minister and his allies that will be the strategy to keep him in post.
The opposition parties will continue to call for his resignation. Labour leader Keir Starmer said that the Prime Minister “took us all for fools” and that he is “unfit for office” .Some of his own party publicly withdrew their support for the Prime Minister in Parliament on Monday, but only a few.
