In Britain, there is now a lot of discussion about how Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be affected by the fact that his most important adviser in recent years left his job on Friday after a power struggle.
Adviser Dominic Cummings has had a major influence on British politics in recent years, leaving his role in an uncertain position in British politics.
Roger Gale is a Member of Parliament for the ruling Tory party.
He thinks Prime Minister Johnson should see this as an opportunity – to “mock the shit out of the stable” as Gale says in an English expression.
Gale is a staunch supporter of Brexit, but many in the Tories also think that Prime Minister Boris Johnson needs to renew his government.
– This gives the government the opportunity for a fresh start, David Davis.
He is another Brexit advocate who is also a party comrade of Boris Johnson.
Cummings’ clear departure yesterday Friday when he left Downing Street for camera flash mats through the famous main entrance carrying a moving box, is of course the big topic of conversation in the media and political Britain today.
Cummings, as the Prime Minister’s closest adviser, was a very controversial, but also long effective person. It was he who laid out the strategies for how the leave side would win the referendum on EU membership in 2016 and it was, among other things, he who was behind the campaign that gave Boris Johnson the big election victory in 2019.
Boris Johnson embraced for a long time Cummings’ aggressive style, but when politics instead of Brexit came to be about the difficult-to-master Covid pandemic, that strategy worked worse.
Criticism of the government’s actions has been harsh and in the end the Prime Minister chose to cut ties with Cummings and his phalanx in the Government Offices.
How this will affect the political content of the Johnson government is still unclear. But Boris Johnson has promised major climate initiatives and will also host the UN’s major climate summit next year.
Many also expect a different, less confrontational style, from Johnson as Prime Minister in the future.
However, the Government Offices emphasize today that Cummings’ departure does not change the hard British line in the trade negotiations with the EU that are currently entering the riot. Those who really want to see an agreement, however, hope that Prime Minister Johnson without Cummings behind him will be prepared to make the compromises needed to really get a trade agreement.
Source: ICELAND NEWS