Hard-pressed Boris Johnson appoints new Brexit minister | Abroad

Truss is popular with members of the Conservative party and has been mentioned as a possible successor to Johnson as leader of the party.

Johnson is rapidly losing popularity with voters and his own supporters, after it was revealed last week that he and his wife were holding a party at the official residence at 10 Downing Street in May 2020. At the time, the United Kingdom was in lockdown and Britons were only allowed two have people around. Parties would also have been held on Downing Street during the Christmas period in 2020, when that was not allowed under the corona rules.

Johnson said of the May 2020 party that it was a work meeting, but on Sunday The Guardian published photos showing dozens of guests drinking wine and eating snacks. The photos, which show nineteen people who do not keep enough distance from each other, suggest that it was not a work meeting but a social gathering.

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