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Contemporary Controversies in public law


DOWNFALL OF BORIS JOHNSON

BACKGROUND  Former prime minister
 Won 2019 election and ‘got Brexit done’
 wanted to rule for a decade

WHAT HAPPENED??? ‘Wallpaper gate’
 wanted very expensive wallpaper to re do downing
street and it was more than what taxpayers and
government could afford this
 it was problematic as he got others to fund it if he
did favours for them in exchange for money

‘Party gate’ & ‘ambushed with a cake’
 Was present at parties and gatherings during covid
restrictions and he was fined by police
 consistency denied it for a long period of time
 currently being investigated by the house of
commons to see if he misled parliament

Owen Paterson and Chris Pincher Scandals (conservative
party MPs)
 Owen Paterson breached lobbying rules in order to
help a friend
 Chris Pincher had allegations for sexually
inappropriate conduct and this ultimately the
scandal that led to his resignation

WHAT/WHY IS THIS Rules relating to the individual responsibility of ministers
CONSTITUTIONALLY  Responsibilities can be integrity and honesty, so
CONTROVERSIAL??? Johnson’s conduct violated the individual’s
responsibility of ministers

PM enforces the Ministerial Code
 there will be bias – won’t find themselves guilty of
breaching it
 ministerial code is a constitutional convention – it
is NOT the law, only political

Had overruled his independent advisor on standards
 Independent adviser quit after being overrules on
Priti Patel bullying report

The PM needs to retain the ‘confidence’ of the house of
commons and if the PM loses this vote of confidence they
must be resign. The PM also needs to retain ‘collective
support’ of his MPs and ministers and Johnson lost this.

, Contemporary Controversies in public law


 There were 55 resignations over 2 days which
effectively forced Johnson out

this is constitutionally significant as Boris Johnson
upheld the confidence of the commons right till the end
and no rule forced him out, but the scandals build up
overtime which caused his government to resign

FUTURE IMPLICATIONS  was Johnson uniquely irresponsible? – could
represent constitutional shift of how it deals with
bad prime ministers

 how could we reform system of ministerial
standards? – courts have not achieved much in
terms of getting involved in the application of the
law in political matters as ministerial code is not
law

 how enforceable are (non-legal) conventions? –
proposal for integrity and ethics commission in
political to enforce rules more strictly




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