Boris Johnson he is, politically speaking, mortally wounded. He was stabbed in the back by his own party when, earlier in the week, they activated the vote of no confidence motion that could have expelled him from the Government.
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Failed attempt by the Conservative Party rebels, who only convinced 148 deputies to vote against Johnson. Luckily for the premier, 211 faithful They chose to give him a second chance.
But it was by no means a victory to celebrate over drinks in Downing Street. In any case, the vote indicated that tolerance for Johnson’s bungling has already reached its limitand now the premier suffers to show that he wants to leave the scandal of the ‘Partygate‘ in the past.
Your new strategy? Push the Brexit buttonalways the most desperate resource of the Conservative Party.
Johnson plans to finalize controversial legislation that would rewrite, unilaterallycertain parts of the divorce agreement that he negotiated with Brussels in 2019.
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Just 48 hours after the motion was voted on, he signed his new treaty, which will change the border regulations between Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
The legislation will allow the British Government nullify certain parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol, and replace them with your own solutions. These include the implementation of a clear ‘green lane’ which will allow British goods to enter Northern Ireland. freely. But products destined for the European Union will circulate along a “red lane” full of controls and inspections.
The “brick subsidy”
Once the nationalist side was seduced with the Brexit update, Boris Johnson turns to a sector of the population that does not tend to vote for the Conservative Party: the lowest paid workers, recipients of Social helps.
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The prime minister is cooking up a bill through which housing grants may be used to purchase homes. Through a speech Johnson will announce that he wants to change the current rules so that Britons can use welfare payments to apply for mortgages and make monthly payments.
His argument is that it would be better to spend those 30 billion poundsannually earmarked for housing grants, to help people become homeowners.
According to the newspaper The Timesone minister described the legislation as a “brick grant”, celebrating that it would help youths pass the necessary checks to apply for a mortgage.
Currently, more than three million people depend on social housing benefitsand many of them also use state aid to pay their rent.
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