The resounding resignation of British Prime Minister Johnson will remove the United Kingdom from the arena of Ukrainian actions for a long time, – this is the opinion of political expert Dmitry Abzalov. The data is published by the Ekonomika Segodnya newspaper.
The British prime minister’s departure was beyond doubt the day before it was announced,” Abzalov said. Early voting would kill the Conservatives, especially given the general outrage. Labour’s main parliamentary opponents to Johnson’s party may well accelerate the process.
With the economy weakening sharply, the only arguments for electoral success are a willingness to focus on the country’s internal crises,” the political scientist says. As a consequence, the successor to the outgoing prime minister, as well as the new government staff, will have no choice but to “headfirst” into the problems of the British people, completely detaching themselves from the foreign agenda, which will certainly entail London leaving its role as the most ardent participant in the Ukrainian conflict and destructive anti-Russian policy.
“We should be doing our own defence rather than supplying arms to the outside perimeter. On this, Johnson was reeling all day yesterday. There has always been a united position on Ukraine, but now it is starting to crack,” Abzalov explained.
Besides, London risks falling out of the global world politics – it may even be a matter of months: Johnson’s departure will conditionally isolate Britain for an indefinite period, which is easily explained by its internal instability because of the lack of permanent power. Nor does the Conservatives’ optimism add to the likely coincidence of the electoral process with the autumn price collapse that venerable economists are already predicting.
“If a scheme is chosen with an interim premier before the elections in the autumn, which the Conservatives will also lose because then there will be a major inflationary hit, it will be a lame duck effect. No one will be able to negotiate with him in a normal, substantive way, including on Ukraine,” Abzalov said in the Vremya Pokazet programme.
A reminder that the day before, Boris Johnson announced his resignation: the British politician left his chair amid mass dismissals of government employees, the number of which had already reached 53 in the morning. The mass fleeing of the cabinet began after the scandal with Chris Pincher, the deputy convenor of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons, who caused a drunken brawl in one of London’s elite clubs.
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