Johnson, his government and his party face a horrible few months of pain that will likely get worse before it gets better | Analysis by Luke McGee
London There is never a good time for a sitting government to become consumed by a political scandal so severe that its leader faces daily calls to resign.
But as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is embroiled in a crisis over allegations of numerous parties held in Downing Street while the rest of the UK was in lockdown, sparking national outrage, the timing is particularly tortuous for the governing Conservative party. For weeks, Johnson and his loyalists tried to wait out the scandal by refusing to answer even the simplest of questions related to some of the parties, as a steady drip of revelations emerged on an almost daily basis.
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