'How greased piglet Boris lost grip on power after stunning election win'
On October 17 he secured a free trade Brexit withdrawal deal agreed with Europe, which dumbfounded his critics who had believed it was impossible.
But Britain was locked in a so-called Zombie Parliament — with Mr Johnson not having enough MPs to pass the deal in a Commons stuffed full of Remainers.The Brexit deadline was extended and Mr Johnson asked Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to back aWith a No Deal Brexit off the table, Corbyn finally agreed to an election which was held on December 12, 2019.written on it while riding a JCB — he delivered a crushing 80-seat landslide majority.
In Tony Blair’s former Sedgefield constituency on his first official visit following his triumph, he pledged to level up the country and lead as the “peoples’ Government”.11 years as PM.Mr Johnson rode a tidal wave of popularity with the Tories polling at 49 per cent toOn February 18 a court was told Mr Johnson and his estranged wife Marina Wheeler had agreed a divorce settlement.announced she was pregnant and the couple had got engaged.
Yet, his new tenure in Downing Street was already being buffeted as Covid 19 began spreading across the globe from China.And then the virus caught up with the overweight PM.Mr Johnson would later admit his life hung in the balance, saying there were “48 hours when things could have gone either way”.Yet the grim spectre of Covid still hung over the country, and he was forced, largely against his will, into a one-month November lockdown.
But on December 21, 2020, he was forced to cancel Christmas as the pandemic raged once more and threatened to overwhelm
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