Boris Johnson is not supported by his brother | Jo John …

Even the brother has dropped Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Jo Johnson, younger brother of the Conservative leader, has decided to resign from his position as Secretary of State for Science and Universities and MP alleging a conflict between his "family loyalty" and "national interest". An elegant way of saying that you are against Brexit without agreement. His resignation could not come at the worst time for the Prime Minister who suffered yesterday two severe defeats in Parliament: the House of Commons pbaded a law banning the exit of the European Union (EU) without agreement and refused to summon elections on October 15, as Boris Johnson asked. Both laws were supported by dissident Conservatives.

"In recent weeks, I've been divided between family loyalty and national interest.This is an insoluble tension and time for others to badume my duties," Jo Johnson announced on Twitter. Does the younger brother of the Prime Minister oppose the departure of the European Union (EU). "We had all the advantages of belonging to the EU and none of the disadvantages. How could we not like this situation? Jo Johnson in 2016, after the referendum in which the British said yes to Brexit, Jo Johnson, 47, had already resigned from Theresa May's government in November 2018. agreement being finalized "would be a terrible mistake" for the country and had asked to hold a second referendum in the hope of revoking the Brexit.

The drop that broke the glbad for Jo was the decision of his brother to expel from the conservative party the 21 moderate parliamentarians who voted against a Brexit without agreement during Wednesday's parliamentary session, according to the British newspaper L & # 39; Independent. David Gauke, one of these 21 MPs, said the resignation of Johnson's brother was a great loss for Parliament, the government and the party. "Many parliamentarians have had to struggle with the loyalties found in recent weeks, but no one but Jo," he wrote on his Twitter account.

This is not the first time that tensions about the UK's release from the EU are being felt within the Johnson family. Journalist Rachel Johnson, the Prime Minister's sister, has been nominated as a candidate for the British pro-European party Change in the European elections at Eurochamber last May, although she was not elected. Rachel Johnson, 54, was a member of the Conservative Party as her brothers until 2011. However, in the general election of 2017, she supported the liberal Democratic centrists to defend with them the permanence of the United Kingdom in the United States. 39, European Union. Yesterday, he wrote on his Twitter account: "The family avoids the problem of" Brexit ", especially during meals, because we do not want to pinch the Prime Minister."

In the opposite field, 55-year-old Boris Johnson was one of the leaders in the Brexit campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum. In July, he succeeded then premier Theresa May who had become a great rival that the leader negotiated a too sweet divorce with Brussels.