Boris johnson was a character who would break rules to get this crisis out of the way. Now, he has been hit over the head by an entirely different crisis. And any sniff of rule breaking suddenly turns into an extraordinary potential political weakness. That's the kind of sort of tragic story of boric johnson's political demise.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing political ruin because his aides partied while the UK locked down.
This episode was produced by Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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