{"id":1084914,"date":"2023-06-14T05:58:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=285968"},"modified":"2023-06-14T05:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:58:18","slug":"boris-johnson-does-a-trump-in-his-resignation-from-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/14\/boris-johnson-does-a-trump-in-his-resignation-from-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson Does a Trump in His Resignation From Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BoJo saw the writing on the wall and abandoned his greater-London seat with a scathing resignation statement accusing the current prime minister, Rishi Sunak, of overseeing a government that is \u201cnot properly Conservative\u201d, as well as criticizing the Partygate investigation. True to form, BoJo said he was the victim of a \u201cwitch-hunt\u201d, a \u201ckangaroo court\u201d and \u201ca political hit job\u201d, even though the Privileges Committee has a Tory majority and took over a year to conduct its investigation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/14\/boris-johnson-does-a-trump-in-his-resignation-from-parliament\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/14\/boris-johnson-does-a-trump-in-his-resignation-from-parliament\/\">Boris Johnson Does a Trump in His Resignation From Parliament<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/14\/boris-johnson-does-a-trump-in-his-resignation-from-parliament\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoJo saw the writing on the wall and abandoned his greater-London seat with a scathing resignation statement accusing the current prime minister, Rishi Sunak, of overseeing a government that is \u201cnot properly Conservative\u201d, as well as criticizing the Pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085254,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084914\/revisions\/1085254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}