Downing Street announced in a statement published in the evening that it had accepted the resignations of Martin Reynolds, Boris Johnson’s chief secretary who had sent an email to around 100 people inviting them to a party in May 2020, as well as that of his chief of staff, Dan Rosenfield, a year after his arrival.
The Prime Minister thanked them for their important contribution to the government
, including their work on the pandemic and economic recovery, a spokesperson said in a statement. They will remain in place until their successors are appointed.
, he added.
The announcement of these departures had been preceded during the day by those of Munira Mirza, head of policy at Downing Street, and the head of communications, Jack Doyle, who would have participated in one of the parties in question.
Ms Mirza slammed Boris Johnson for making an accusation misleading
against the Leader of the Opposition when he was defending himself in Parliament after the publication of a damning internal report on these meetings in Downing Street, which attributed to him leadership mistakes
.
The Prime Minister had accused Labor Party leader Keir Starmer of allowing pedophile Jimmy Savile, the late BBC star, to escape justice when he headed the British prosecution.
Labor Party leader Keir Starmer
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Johnson raises an outcry
The use of this accusation, widespread in conspiratorial and far-right circles, caused an outcry.
Keir Starmer himself accused Boris Johnson of repeating fascist conspiracy theories to score political points on the cheap
.
There was no reasonable or just basis for this assertion
, wrote Munira Mirza, head of policy at Downing Street, in her resignation letter published on the magazine’s website The Spectator. It was a partisan and inappropriate reference to an appalling case of child sexual abuse
, she said.
Despite his call to do so, you did not apologize for the misleading impression you gave
, she continued.
A former member of the defunct Revolutionary Communist Party, Munira Mirza worked with Boris Johnson when he was mayor of London between 2008 and 2016.
Downing Street has confirmed his departure, as has that of communications director Jack Doyle.
According to the tabloid DailyMail, he told his teams that it had always been his intention to leave two years after arriving at Downing Street in 2020, initially in a junior role, and that his family life had suffered greatly from this scandal in recent years. weeks.
