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RandySF

(86,183 posts)
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 03:02 PM Jul 2022

More UK government resignations


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This Evening's Resignations:

Rishi Sunak MP (Chancellor)
Sajid Javid MP (Health Sec.)
Bim Afolami MP (Vice Chair)
Jonathan Gullis MP (PPS, NI)
Saqib Bhatti MP (PPS, Health)
Andrew Murrison MP (Trade Envoy, Morocco)
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More UK government resignations (Original Post) RandySF Jul 2022 OP
What will happen to BoJo? Ocelot II Jul 2022 #1
The reason for their resignations? SergeStorms Jul 2022 #2
BJ knowingly appointed a groper to a senior government position. RandySF Jul 2022 #5
Thanks. SergeStorms Jul 2022 #6
Is there some context for this? euphorb Jul 2022 #3
The Guardian has a lot of coverage. barbaraann Jul 2022 #4
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Home Secretary Priti Patel, and Celerity Jul 2022 #7

SergeStorms

(20,807 posts)
2. The reason for their resignations?
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 03:27 PM
Jul 2022

I must confess to not keeping up with European news in the past few days.

SergeStorms

(20,807 posts)
6. Thanks.
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 08:29 PM
Jul 2022

BJ has worn out his welcome as PM.

He went to Oxford with Ghislaine Maxwell. Quite the drunken, sexual party school for England's "upper crust" children is old Oxford.

barbaraann

(9,289 posts)
4. The Guardian has a lot of coverage.
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 03:33 PM
Jul 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/uk?INTCMP=CE_UK

It looks like the problem is with things like "tone" and "values" and not with horrific Tory policies.

Celerity

(54,857 posts)
7. Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Home Secretary Priti Patel, and
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 08:35 PM
Jul 2022
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng aren’t resigning, their spokespeople said on Tuesday. Other ministers staying on include Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis, Brexit Opportunities minister Jacob-Rees Mogg and Chief Whip Chris Heaton-Harris.

https://fortune.com/2022/07/05/prime-minister-boris-johnson-senior-cabinet-members-resign-uk-government/



Dominic Raab, Priti Patel, Jacob-Rees Mogg aka the 3 Stooges




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