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If he gets away with this, the precedent set is disastrous for future PMs and democracy.
I think he will. Mainly due to pandemic fatigue of the public.
Trust me I genuinely want to live in UK when labour is in power, I have only spent a few months under tail end of New Labour.
This is the only memory I have:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwPiyXNPidQ&ab_channel=ABCNews%28Australia%29
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Trust me I genuinely want to live in UK when labour is in power
Keep saying this to anyone that will listen. Keeping Blair out of it for now, early New Labour ('97-'00) felt like the whole country breathed a massive sigh of relief, and (from what I remember) was accompanied by a ton of decent, relatively sizeable accomplishments.
Having a PM who doesn’t lie to parliament, at least so brazenly, is very important for the future. It’s more about principles than policies at this point, IMO.
If he gets away with this, the precedent set is disastrous for future PMs and democracy.