Labour-led investigation into Boris Johnson’s Partygate statements was always designed to stitch him up
A giant felled
BORIS Johnson’s unique magnetism and historic achievements dwarf those of the pygmies who set out to expel him as an MP and, appallingly, have succeeded.
The Labour-led committee set up to investigate his Commons statements over Partygate always looked designed to stitch him up, and so it has.
His resignation is a bitter blow to voters who gave him an 80-seat majority in 2019, to all those who still admire him and think he was hard done by and to his millions of grateful fans in Ukraine who must be bewildered today.
Boris never made the great Prime Minister The Sun had hoped.
But he is a giant figure in modern British history and a sad loss to Parliament and the Tory party . . . for now at least.
As PM he guided Britain through a once-in-a-century pandemic and saved thousands of lives with the early rollout of jabs.
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But he is of course the man without whom Brexit would never have happened.
Not only did he lead Leave to victory in 2016 but, with his election win, broke the insanely dangerous three-year blockade by the Remainer Parliament — to ensure the majority’s will was enacted and democracy upheld.
For that, Remainers will never forgive him.
They ensured his self-inflicted scandals proved fatal in No10.
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Now they have even forced him out of Parliament.
Their celebrations tell their own miserable story.
Oil the wheels
SCRAPPING the energy windfall tax once prices fall to reasonable levels is not just right, it is essential.
The Sun backed the emergency levy on the oil giants’ indefensible war profits to help us all pay soaring bills.
But costs have plummeted and that punitive tax cannot remain long-term.
It is hampering vital North Sea investment and deterring foreign firms in many sectors from coming to Britain.
A welcome dose of realism, then, from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.
And he’s not alone.
Yesterday his Labour shadow Rachel Reeves rightly forced a mortified Keir Starmer to U-turn on his flagship, indeed only, policy.
Labour wanted to gamble a monstrous £28billion a year in borrowed money on a “green industrial revolution” dreamed up by Ed Miliband, a man voters rejected in 2015 as incompetent.
Reeves considers the idea reckless now that global interest rates have risen.
Trouble is, he is also now committed to banning new UK oil and gas development, exactly as his Just Stop Oil allies demanded.
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What becomes of all those redundant North Sea workers who were supposed to get shiny new green jobs under Miliband’s fantasy plan?
And where would Labour find reliable 24/7 energy if it insists on leaving UK oil to dwindle?