The international banking system is in crisis, the Ukraine war is in the balance, and inflation, against economists’ expectations, remains in double digits due to a jump in food prices. But the story dominating UK headlines is what Boris Johnson knew about parties at No. 10 during lockdown more than a year ago.
There is the small matter of whether Johnson “inadvertently or intentionally and recklessly” misled the House of Commons about the shenanigans at No. 10 — this is the British bargain-basement version of President Nixon’s Watergate. In the American scandal, bloodhound investigators Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were urged by their source, Deep Throat, to “follow the money.” In Westminster, media inquisitors have been following the wine bottles and the karaoke machines.
