{"id":4385,"date":"2022-02-03T09:11:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T09:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=4385"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:13:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T09:13:31","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end-for-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/02\/03\/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"The beginning of the end for Johnson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">UK PM Boris Johnson apologises in The House over anger at lockdown drinks party, Professor Matthew Goodwin comments on Johnson&#8217;s position in the Conservative party, police involvement, possible successors and a future general election. <\/p>\n<p>Party revelations and the limited published content of Sue Gray&#8217;s report has prompted an enormous public backlash and destabilised Johnson&#8217;s premiership once again. Keir Starmer, leader of the opposition Labour Party, accused Johnson of \u201cmonths of deceit and deception\u201d and led calls in urging the prime minister to \u201cdo the decent thing and resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;It is beginning to feel like the beginning of the end.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to note that this isn\u2019t the only source of disillusionment within the Conservative Party over Boris Johnson\u2019s leadership,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/512\/goodwin-matthew\">Professor Matthew Goodwin<\/a> told CNBC\u2019s \u201cStreet Signs Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch\u00a0 in full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/12\/uk-pm-boris-johnson-apologizes-over-anger-at-lockdown-drinks-party.html\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK PM Boris Johnson apologises in The House over anger at lockdown drinks party, Professor Matthew Goodwin comments on Johnson&#8217;s position in the Conservative party, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/02\/03\/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-johnson\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":4386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}