Resignation of two ministers in the United Kingdom: “End of the game for Boris Johnson?”

Published on: 06/07/2022 – 09:09 On the front page of the press, Wednesday July 6, the resignation in the United Kingdom, of two key ministers of the government of Boris Johnson. Elisabeth Borne’s general policy speech today at the National Assembly. France, which is changing its “case by case” policy for the return of jihadist women and their children. And two very surprising football matches in Sierra Leone. The +: Receive the France 24 press review every morning on your iPhone or any other mobile. And also always on your PC by becoming a fan on Facebook… In the headlines, the resignation, yesterday, in the United Kingdom, of two key ministers of the government of Boris Johnson. The resignation of the Ministers of Finance and Health made the front page of the entire British press, which was already whistling the “end of the game” for Boris Johnson. “Finally”, soberly titles The Daily Mirror. “The last chance saloon”, quips The Sun, while The Daily Star brings down the curtain on “BoZo” the clown. A sign that things are starting to go really badly for the Prime Minister: the centre-left daily The Guardian and the conservative newspaper The Times have, for once, come to an agreement and now both see Boris Johnson “in edge of the precipice”. For most British dailies, the departures of Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid should be the final blow to an already largely discredited Boris Johnson. The Guardian, which denounces the Prime Minister’s “repeated cover-ups”, says he learned “unsurprisingly” that Boris Johnson had once again lied by denying having been informed of the allegations of sexual misconduct concerning Chris Pincher. He would therefore have knowingly appointed him “whip” as deputy chief, responsible for the Conservative MPs. “Finally, a point of no return has been reached by ministers forced to smear their own reputations to defend a dishonest and delinquent Prime Minister”, asserts the newspaper, calling on the other members of Boris Johnson’s cabinet to “follow the example” of the resigners. “Boris Johnson has lost the trust of his party and the country and he must resign now, if the Conservatives are to have a chance of winning the next election”, insists The Times, which judges Boris Johnson’s “dishonesty” “corrosive”, as the country faces an “acute crisis”. In Blower’s cartoon, posted on Twitter, General Johnson tries to convince what’s left of his troops, starting with his Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, that this is all just a bad time to be had , that “Operation Save the Chief”, will be over by Christmas. In the background, corpses of bottles and foie gras lie on a table – alluding of course to Partygate, the scandal of the parties organized in Downing Street in full confinement. A bad moment to pass perhaps for her too: in France, Elisabeth Borne delivered her general policy speech to the Assembly. Priority of the French, purchasing power should be “at the heart” of this speech, according to Liberation, which recalls that the presidential camp no longer has an absolute majority in the assembly, where the deputies are ready to do battle. For its part, the government says it is “open to compromise, but not to one-upmanship” and L’Opinion sees a thin crest line looming “for the executive, between “protection of the French” and “deficit reduction”. The newspaper announces a “first crash test” in the Assembly with the law on purchasing power – hence the drawing of Kak, with Emmanuel Macron at the wheel of a humanitarian truck, blocked at the same time by the deputies – Nupes soldiers and those of the National Rally.In France, still, the government finally changed its policy of “case by case” and agreed to repatriate 16 jihadist women and 35 children who were detained in Syria. all adult women were placed in police custody or detention, and the children entrusted to the Childhood Social Aid.This decision by France, while Germany and Belgium have already recovered a large part of their nationals, is hailed by the newspaper, satisfied to see the government “placing the principle of humanity above the principle of precaution”. A choice which “implies accepting a share of risk, the part that distinguishes civilized societies from the totalitarian logic of terrorism”. Le Parisien, which evokes arrivals which are “debating”, specifies that the minors were transferred as soon as they arrived in Yvelines, to the west of Paris, where those who have ties in the department will remain on site, but for a limited duration, while the others should soon be transferred “elsewhere in Île-de-France or in the provinces”, to be closer to their families. According to the newspaper, there are still nearly 170 minors and 80 mothers in Syrian camps controlled by the Kurds, places where living conditions are “appalling”, according to the UN. -above. The Team reports on two football matches that took place last weekend in Sierra Leone. Two meetings which resulted in rather surprising scores, since the winners won respectively 91 to 1 and 95 to 0, that’s more than one goal per minute. The winners benefited from very favorable circumstances: expulsions do you want some, a referee who disappeared at half-time and even a player who scored 30 goals on his own! These dubious circumstances have put the flea in the ear of the Sierra Leonean Football League, which has opened an investigation to determine if these matches were fixed… or if they are two consecutive miracles. Find every morning on France 24 the Revue de presse (Monday to Friday, at 7:20 a.m. and 9:20 a.m. Paris time). Also follow the Revue des Hebdos every weekend in multicast.