However, in the short term, the football crisis has helped Mr Johnson, who diverts attention from negative headlines, to a lobbying scandal focused primarily on his contacts with his predecessor David Cameron and the current cabinet minister.
On Wednesday, people close to Mr Johnson on that issue coincided with the emergence of text messages sent to James Dyson, a businessman and Brexit supporter, promising that Mr Dyson’s employees would pay additional tax when they arrived in Britain to make ventilators. not have to. Early stages of the epidemic. Mr Dyson’s company announced in 2019 that it would move its headquarters to Singapore citing growing demand in Asia.
In recent months, the successful roll out of vaccines against Kovid-19 revived Mr Johnson’s fortunes after a succession of missteps last year when the government’s wrangling to deal with the epidemic.
Football is so prevalent in Britain’s national life that it is still cropped, too.
In April 2020, Matt Hancock, the Secretary of Health, attacked highly paid football players during the epidemic, saying “to pay and do their part”. But within months the government was ousted by Manchester United and an England star player Marcus Rashford.
Inviting his own poor childhood, Mr. Rashford conducted a campaign against child poverty, and eventually forced Mr. Johnson to change the policy on free school meals.
The boot was on the other foot this week as Mr Johnson was able to denounce Super League plans ahead of Mr Rashford, whose club had initially signed offers.
No expertise was needed to be “horrified” at the prospect of the Super League being “cooked by a small number of clubs.” Mr. Johnson wrote in the Sun newspaper.
