UK’S JOHNSON VOWS TO “GET ON WITH THE JOB” AFTER TRUST VOTE WIN

Tue 07 June 2022:

After surviving a confidence vote, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet with his top ministers on Tuesday, promising to “get on with the job” and laying out plans for fresh policy announcements in the coming weeks.

Johnson won the late Monday vote by 211 votes to 148 votes, which was enough to keep him from having to quit immediately, but it also resulted in a larger-than-expected rebellion within his party, leaving him politically wounded and fighting to regain the trust of his colleagues and the public.

Johnson, a master of political comebacks, instead described the vote as a “decisive result” meaning that “as a government we can move on and focus on the stuff that I think really matters to people”.

“We can focus on what we’re doing to help people with the cost of living, what we’re doing to clear the COVID backlogs, what we’re doing to make streets and communities safer by putting more police out,” said Johnson, who for weeks has tried to move the national conversation away from “partygate”.

His first task will be to persuade his most senior allies, some of whom would have rushed to replace him if he had been forced out, that he will be able to move on from the leadership concerns.

Johnson’s office issued a statement saying he would use the meeting to set out his vision for the coming weeks, including new policies to help reduce the costs of childcare and to help more people buy their own homes.

“This is a government that delivers on what the people of this country care about most,” Johnson said in the statement.

“We are on the side of hard-working British people, and we are going to get on with the job.”

PM Johnson, who scored a sweeping election victory in 2019, has been under increasing pressure after he and staff held alcohol-fuelled parties in his Downing Street office and residence when Britain was under lockdowns to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

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