The House of Commons will vote Monday on whether to accept a parliamentary probe that found Johnson repeatedly misled politicians about the rule-breaking parties during the pandemic.
The prime minister’s position at the head of the governing Conservative Party has been bolstered after months of speculation in Westminster that Johnson could return to power.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s finance minister is trying to identify £50 billion ($56 billion) of spending cuts and tax increases.
Sunak faces a formidable challenge to steady the U.K. economy in the face of headwinds including double-digit inflation, rising interest rates and a surge in mortgage costs.
On the face of it, Liz Truss’s days as U.K. prime minister look numbered and her demise imminent, but Tory MPs are utterly divided over who should take over.
Brexit has caused six years of "damage,” "policy confusion” and "ineptitude,” a columnist for the traditionally Brexit-backing Telegraph newspaper wrote this weekend.
Boxed in, U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss was left with two cards to play: hitting reset on her economic plan, and firing her friend and finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng.
Less than a month in No. 10 Downing Street, Liz Truss and her team have already adopted an us-against-the-world mentality.
More than 40 ministers and aides followed the example set a day earlier by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid in quitting.
Johnson’s disregard for normal politics has been popular, helping him shrug off a slew of scandals throughout his career.
