Commentary
You may remember that, way back in January, I remarked on the then-exciting British scandal known as “Cake-gate.”
Boris Johnson, the Conservative prime minister, was said to have attended a garden party for staff at Number 10 Downing Street in honor of his birthday—and possibly even consumed a bit of birthday cake—during lockdown when such social gatherings were forbidden to ordinary people.
The calls for his resignation, even from many from his own party in Parliament, became for a while all but deafening. It was far from clear that he could survive a proposed vote of no-confidence, despite a substantial Tory majority in the House of Commons.
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