Britain’s shame

The first Partygate fines were handed out to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior Conservatives last week.

For more than a year, Boris Johnson's Conservative government has been haunted by 'Partygate,' an ongoing scandal concerning numerous drinks parties at the prime minister’s office and residence when the United Kingdom was in COVID lockdown, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Flickr/Simon Dawson/No. 10 Downing Street

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 20, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—It’s generally bad form to quote another journalist, but Stewart Lee’s day job is stand-up comedian, so we can make an exception just this once. Writing in The Observer on April 17, Lee offered a summary of Britain’s Conservative government as its 12-year reign stumbles...

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