The images were broadcast on Downing Street on Monday and show Boris Johnson, who is preparing to step down as UK Prime Minister, inside a Typhoon fighter jet. According to Sky News, the images were captured during a demonstration at Farnborough, the international fair dedicated to the aerospace industry, which starts this Monday.
First images of the PM at the controls of a Typhoon last week.
In a speech this morning you will compare the flight with
to his leadership of the Tory party:“I pulled the joystick back and we did a loop the loop…” pic.twitter.com/LXyYlArA5Q
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Sky News says that given the spread of these images, Boris Johnson is expected to give a speech at this event paralleling how he prepares to hand over command to his successor. “After three happy years in the cockpit, having some pretty difficult if not amazing feats, I am about to hand the controls over without interruption to someone else,” Sky News quotes Boris Johnson on Boris Johnson’s highly anticipated speech to show attendees. aerospace. .
But Boris Johnson’s long-awaited visit to this event is drawing criticism, given the heat wave the country is facing. For the first time, the UK has issued a red alert due to high temperatures. It is still foreseeable that a new temperature record will be broken in the country, with 41 degrees predicted for this beginning of the week. The previous temperature record was 39 degrees.
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Due to this situation, the British ministers held an emergency meeting over the weekend, in the so-called COBRA meetings, meetings in which a multidisciplinary crisis response team is present.
The Labor Party criticizes Boris Johnson’s absence from these meetings, even mentioning that the still prime minister must “show up at work”. There is a third meeting in response to this high temperature emergency this Monday, with another confirmed absence of Boris Johnson.
Lisa Nandy, shadow minister for communities, accuses Boris Johnson of having “clearly abandoned” his post since announcing his resignation on July 7.
A Conservative Party source told Sky News there will be a reason Boris Johnson missed the weekend’s COBRA meeting: the wrap party. The party will have been held at Checkers, the country residence of the prime ministers.
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Source: Observadora
