But I’m certain it could have been extended were he willing.
The party revelations will have offended him and the blow back on officials who work with this admin isn’t good for their reputations.
Nor the current death toll. A policy failure.
Also, given the content of his Royal Society lectures, one cannot help but think that he has felt at odds with Gov policy decisions for quite a while.
471 (60 day) deaths yesterday.
How many avoidable for want of early effective interventions?
Then the consequence of creaking breaking NHS services.
2 separate leaving parties merging into one as the night wore on.
Someone was sent to the Co-op on the Strand, a busy street nearby, with a suitcase which was then filled with bottles of wine and brought back to Downing Street, according to one person at the gathering that night
That being so, why did not someone such as Dick go to the PM & PPS and have a tactful word early on eg “You really cannot do this as we would, in fairness, be forced to intervene to uphold the laws you passed even handedly”
Did she (or a DAC Protection and Security) not do that
We know these parties were still going on months later.
What were the private conversations between police officers on duty, their senior officers to whom they report and those at the very top?
MI5 send urgent email to MPs warning about Chinese woman
Christine Lee has been engaged in political interference activities on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, engaging with MPs & associated political entities, inc the APPG: Chinese in Britain dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
'I should highlight the fact that Lee has facilitated financial donations to serving and aspiring Parliamentarians on behalf of foreign nationals based in Hong Kong & China
'This facilitation was done covertly to mask the origins of the payments.’
So which MPs were hoodwinked?
H/t @iamdarrellmills for this article actually mentioning Christine Lee. It seems awfully old (3 years) to be the object of the current statement.
But the reference was to MPs (plural) so who else has Chinese interests?
“Behind him there was a wall of silence, which will have been much more disconcerting than the shouts of Labour MPs in front of him. The men and women of the Conservative parliamentary party gazed at him. Their golden goose was laying diseased eggs.” inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-…
“ The great guarantor of electoral victory was tarnished, seemingly beyond repair.
There was no moral dimension to their calculation and we shouldn’t pretend otherwise. They gave up any right to that word when they allowed him to become Prime Minister”
“Boris Johnson has lied and bent the truth throughout his career. “