Editorial: After all the lies, the party could be coming to an end for unrepentant Johnson

The British prime minister has wriggled out of plenty of tight spots in the past, but the Partygate lockdown scandal looks increasingly likely to end his time in office

Johnson’s defenders claim Partygate is too trivial an issue to force his resignation. But it is too late to make that argument. Picture: Shutterstock

When a British prime minister leaves the country during a political crisis, there can only be trouble ahead. In late 1990, Margaret Thatcher was in Paris when a vote in the House of Commons suggested her time might be up; she was gone within days. Boris Johnson jetted to India last week as MPs voted to hold a formal investigation into whether he misled parliament over Partygate, the tawdry little affair that appears ever more ...