The list of starters is growing in the government of Boris Johnson.
While the Ministers of Health and Finance left their posts on Tuesday, two other members of his team resigned on Wednesday.
The Secretary of State in charge of Children and the Family, Will Quince, announced his departure, judging that he has "no choice".
He made this decision after repeating "in good faith" in the media elements provided by the Prime Minister's office "which turned out to be inaccurate".
Laura Trott has left her post as assistant to the Secretary of State for Transport, judging that confidence is "lost".
With great sadness and regret, I have this morning tendered my resignation to the Prime Minister after I accepted and repeated assurances on Monday to the media which have now been found to be inaccurate.
I wish my successor well - it is the best job in government.
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— Will Quince MP 🇬🇧 (@willquince) July 6, 2022
This wave of departures further weakens Boris Johnson, entangled in a wave of scandals.
Weakened but determined to stay, he defends his position in Parliament this Wednesday during the weekly question session.
He then faces the chairmen of the main committees of the House of Commons, the British National Assembly, including some of his most vocal critics within his Conservative party.
These resignations come as the Prime Minister has apologized after yet another scandal, acknowledging that he made a "mistake" in appointing Chris Pincher, assistant in charge of parliamentary discipline for Conservative MPs, to his government in February.
The latter resigned last week after being accused of touching two men.
On Tuesday, after claiming the opposite, the Prime Minister admitted having been informed as early as 2019 of old accusations against Chris Pincher, but that he had "forgotten" them by naming him.
A resigner calls for more "integrity from the government"
The British expect the government to behave in a "competent" and "serious" manner and "this is why I am resigning", wrote the resigning Minister of Finance, Rishi Sunak.
Sajid Javid, who is renouncing the health portfolio, said that the British are entitled to expect “integrity from their government”.
Boris Johnson quickly made replacements by appointing his education minister, Nadhim Zahawi, to finance and Steve Barclay, hitherto in charge of government coordination, to health.
Ministers loyal to him reaffirmed their support, such as Nadine Dorries, in charge of Culture.
It is sometimes "easy to leave", but "much more difficult" to implement reforms for the country, said Nadhim Zahawi.
Despite these signs of support, will Boris Johnson be able to survive this umpteenth crisis, he who has always refused to consider resigning?
Already considerably weakened by the party scandal in Downing Street, the seat of government, during the Covid-19 pandemic, he survived a vote of no confidence from his own camp a few weeks ago.
There have been several sexual cases in Parliament: an MP suspected of rape was arrested and then released on bail in mid-May, another resigned in April for watching pornography in the House on his mobile phone in April and a former MP was sentenced in May to 18 months in prison for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy.
The departure of these last two deputies caused partial legislative elections and heavy defeats for the conservatives.
The party had already suffered a very poor result in the local elections in May.
The economic context is also particularly delicate, with inflation at its highest for forty years, at 9.1% in May over twelve months, and social unrest.
According to a poll by the YouGov institute on Tuesday evening, 69% of British voters believe that Boris Johnson should resign.
