The prime minister is accused of whooping it up in a garden party at his No. This week Johnson should have been celebrating the success of his gamble to keep the country open during the outbreak of the omicron variant. Instead, the prime minister is fighting for his political life — and he has no one to blame for his predicament but himself. In any case, how can anyone definitively prove what the prime minister thought? If the polls turn irrevocably against him, Johnson is unlikely to survive as prime minister.

Source: The Times January 17, 2022 06:43 UTC