Aurélien Antoine is a professor of public law at the law faculty of Jean-Monnet University in Saint-Étienne. He is the author of “Le Brexit. An English story” (Dalloz, 2020), which won the Olivier-Debouzy and Édouard-Bonnefous prizes from the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
LE FIGARO.
- Boris Johnson
has announced his resignation
.
In recent days, the Downing Street host has been accused of failing to part with the deputy chief 'whip' when he learned that the person concerned was implicated in a scandal.
How do you analyze his resignation?
Aurélien ANTOINE.
- The case you mention is only the straw that broke the camel's back.
For the past six months, since the "Partygate"
(Boris Johnson and members of his government are accused of having organized more than a dozen clandestine parties between May 2020 and April 2021, during the confinements, Editor's note)
, Boris Johnson was on borrowed time.
His maintenance was due only to the absence of a potential successor to replace him...
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