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Four Johnson advisors quit in disgust – and Tory MPs say he’s doing a great job! What?

Isolated: Boris Johnson has tried to show strong leadership by accepting resignations from top advisors who were going anyway. All he has done is show that he is isolated from anybody who could have helped him retain his position as prime minister.

After This Site (and many others) reported that Boris Johnson’s policy advisor Munira Mirza quit her role – after 14 years with him – in disgust at his attempt to shame Keir Starmer for failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile, a further three advisors have quit.

This is hardly a sign of good leadership.

But here are a couple of brainless Tory MP drones saying it’s a sign that Johnson is doing a brilliant job!

What gives?

I’ll tell you – but you won’t be happy with Boris Johnson when I’m done!

It seems the resignation of Munira Mirza actually rocked Johnson hard. She had been with him for 14 years and quitting in the way she did sent a very clear message that he should be ejected from office; no ifs, no buts.

It left him in a very difficult position, with his authority – and his ability to restore order to Downing Street – under serious question.

So he cast around for a way to at least appear to be exerting control – and his gaze fell on three other advisors:  director of communications Jack Doyle, principal private secretary Martin Reynolds and chief of staff Dan Rosenfield.

All have been implicated in the Partygate scandal.

It seems Johnson reasoned that, if he pushed them out, he would present an appearance of acting decisively to restore order to Downing Street after the parties in which they were all involved.

Doyle and Rosenfield are said to have taken part in a party on December 18, 2020, and Doyle is said to have participated in at least one other event. Reynolds allegedly invited around 100 Downing Street staff to a “bring your own booze” party in the garden of 10 Downing Street in May 2020 when the UK was under strict lockdown.

But…

Doyle is also known to have wanted to quit his job after two years in any event, and it is understood that Johnson had previously refused his resignation.

Accepting it now merely makes Johnson look like a scurrilous (as Ms Mirza put it) opportunist and that, rather than forcing anybody out, he is in fact finally letting them go – because it suits him, not them.

Similarly, Rosenfield and Reynolds may have resigned because they feel it is the honourable thing to do after the party revelations. That would lend credence to allegations that these events took place, of course, in contravention of lockdown rules.

So instead of forcing out people who broke the rules, in order to restore order at Number 10, it seems Johnson is instead trying to spin the loss of three top advisors to his advantage.

It won’t work – or shouldn’t, in spite of the best efforts of nobodies like Stuart (who?) Anderson and Chris (who?) Clarkson.

The reason is clear:

No matter why they went, the four resignations mean Johnson has removed the entire top layer of management at 10 Downing Street, isolating himself from his party and showing he lacks any management ability at all – when he should be trying to show strong leadership. And there are plenty of us who can see that.

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Sulk: Boris Johnson has nobody to blame for his latest mess but himself.

It’s all unravelling fast now, for Boris Johnson.

And he should be kicking himself for this, because after he thought his Partygate tracks had been well and truly covered, he shot himself in the proverbial foot causing a fuss about Keir Starmer and Jimmy Savile.

His claim that Starmer had failed in his duty by not prosecuting Savile for child sex offences while the current Labour leader was Director of Public Prosecutions has upset not only Labour MPs, members and supporters, but people in his own party as well.

He made matters worse by refusing to withdraw his false claim (Starmer had nothing to do with the Savile investigation) – and supporters like James Cleverly also compounded the offence.

Both tried to justify Johnson’s words today (February 3) by saying the prime minister had been trying to draw a parallel between Partygate, in which Johnson had taken responsibility for the behavioural failings in Downing Street, and the Savile investigation, for which Starmer (who was in charge of the CPS at the time) didn’t.

But even this is not true, because Starmer admitted that several police forces had failed to take action against the disgraced celebrity, and apologised to the victims, in his capacity as DPP in 2013.

And Johnson still refused to apologise in any way. Instead, he said he wanted to “clarify” his remarks because a lot of people “got very hot under the collar”.

He said: “Let’s be absolutely clear, I’m talking not about the Leader of the Opposition’s personal record when he was DPP and I totally understand that he had nothing to do personally with those decisions.

“I was making a point about his responsibility for the organisation as a whole. I really do want to clarify that because it is important.”

It is indeed. Starmer did take responsibility, and did apologise for the failure, so he did not deserve to be smeared by Johnson – whose only comment on his own Partygate responsibilities has been, “Wait for the report.”

And now the resignations have started. First to go has been Munira Mirza, who has been a Johnson ally for 14 years and was head of policy at Downing Street until today.

In a letter published by The Spectator, she stated: “I believe it was wrong for you to imply this week that Keir Starmer was personally responsible for allowing Jimmy Savile to escape justice. There was no fair or reasonable basis for that assertion.

“This was not the usual cut and thrust of politics; it was an inappropriate and partisan reference to a horrendous case of child sex abuse.

“You tried to clarify your position today but, despite my urging, you did not apologise for the misleading impression you gave.”

She may be just the first of many to hand in their notice.

Other Tory MPs are said to be lining up to do the same, likening Johnson to the fake news-spouting former US President Donald Trump.

With the news media already reporting that at least 17 Tories have submitted letters of “no confidence” in Johnson’s leadership, how many more are about to do the same over this?

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