Britain’s Indian-origin Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said the ongoing controversy over Downing Street parties has damaged public confidence in the government, but insisted that Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is facing mounting calls for his resignation have their “full support”. Sunak, who Rejected talk of replacing JohnsonAccording to the BBC report, said that the Prime Minister had always told the truth about the parties.
“Yes, of course he does. He is the prime minister of the United Kingdom,” said 41-year-old Sunak.
“Yeah, I think it is. I can appreciate the dismay of the people. And I think now it is the job of all of us in the government, of all the politicians, to restore the confidence of the people,” Sunak said this week. Said whether the parties organized in violation of the Kovid-19 lockdown rules have damaged public confidence in the government.
His remarks came after five of Johnson’s aides, including longtime policy chief Munira Mirza, chief of staff Dan Rosenfield, principal private secretary Martin Reynolds and communications director Jack Doyle, all spoke within hours of each other on Thursday. resigned from their posts, after a damning investigation revealed several parties took place in Downing Street, while the rest of the United Kingdom was living under strict COVID-19 lockdown rules.
Sunak, who lives next to the prime minister in Downing Street, is also reported to have attended a surprise birthday party for Johnson in the No 10 cabinet room in June 2020.
Asked if he was aware of the many gatherings during the lockdown, Sunak said: “People think I am spending all my time staring out of this window. [But] I spent half my time in the treasury, as well as working here.” A beleaguered Johnson faces intense pressure from the opposition and Conservative lawmakers to step down, with some Tory lawmakers believing the craze as one of the most powerful figures in the government, to replace Johnson. are at the forefront.
But Sunak suppressed such a thing.
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“Well, it’s so kind of them to suggest it,” he said. “But I think what people want from me is to focus on my job.
“I know some of my colleagues have said so and they will have their reasons for doing so. But I don’t think we are in this position. I have full support for the prime minister,” he told the BBC.
Asked if he would run to be the next Tory leader and prime minister, should there be a vacancy, Sunak said: “No, I’m not focused on it.” Sunak, the UK-born son of a pharmacist mother and National Health Service general practitioner father, is a University of Oxford and Stanford graduate.
The MP from Richmond in Yorkshire first entered the UK Parliament in 2015 and has risen rapidly in the ranks of the Tory party as a staunch Brexiteer who Supports Johnson’s strategy to leave the European Union,
As the first Chancellor of the Exchequer of Indian Heritage, Sunak, who is also the son-in-law of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, made history in February 2020, when he was appointed to the UK’s most important cabinet post.
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