Partygate fallout: Johnson loses two advisers

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost two influential advisers on Thursday, February 3, after the Downing Street party scandal under confinement, further weakening his position.

Munira Mirza, policy officer at Downing Street, was the first to announce her resignation, before communication director Jack Doyle, who would have participated in one of the celebrations.

Mirza reproached Johnson for launching a “misleading” accusation against the opposition leader about a famous pederast, while Johnson defended himself after the publication of a devastating report on the parties.

Johnson accused Labour Party boss  Sir Keir Starmer of allowing pedophile Jimmy Savile, a former BBC presenter, to escape justice when he headed Britain’s prosecution.

These accusations, very popular in plotting and far-right circles, created quite a stir.

“There was no reasonable or just basis for this claim,” Mirza wrote in her resignation letter, posted on The Spectator magazine’s website.

Savile is a late television star who is suspected of committing hundreds of sexual abuses of minors over the years.

Downing Street confirmed the resignations of Mirza and Jack Doyle.

According to the Daily Mail tabloid, Doyle told his team his family life had been greatly affected by the scandal of the last few weeks.