On December 11, 2021, reporters from Country, Rafa de Miguel spoke about comments made by rivals and admirers of Boris Johnson, who Harry Houdini compares to, the historical and escapist illusionist who was able to emerge from any predicament unscathed, despite the fact that by his actions he had systematically destroyed the “immense electoral capital” he had brought to power.

Nearly six months later, party gate has cornered Boris Johnsonwho no longer needed to be Houdini to get out of this predicament, but Bruce Willis, when he starred in Die Hard, known in Latin America as Die Hard, a film which launched the American actor to fame in 1988, in which he played cop John McClane, a man who seems invulnerable to harm no matter how it appears.

It would seem that Johnson played McClane and emerged unscathed from the attack on him, thanks to the fact that he got 210 votes out of the 180 needed to win, but there is a fact that is not small, and it must be taken into account: 148 deputies from his own party voted against.

For now, he will stay in office, as the BBC explained, but his prestige as a leader has been seriously undermined. For the network’s British political editor Chris Mason, the win was a temporary relief for Boris Johnson, but the 148 people on the conservative side, who think the country is better off without him, could spell big trouble down the line.

Mason warned that there are now more lawmakers who want to get rid of him, far more than “wanting to get rid of Theresa May when she faces a vote of no confidence.” What happened after that? May left six hours later.

The fight to get him out of 10 Downing Street will continue because the reading is clear: More than half of his own party doesn’t want him, the same man who three years ago pushed him to the British leadership in the last general election.

The inevitable fall?

Labor leader Keir Starmer told LBC that regardless of the outcome, this event was the “beginning of the end” of Boris Johnson’s political career.

“If we look at the previous examples of no-confidence motions, even when conservative prime ministers hold on (…) the damage has already been done”, who also has no doubt that a fall will be inevitable: “they usually fall pretty quickly after”.

The reason is obvious, for those who are promoting this motion, they don’t see Johnson as an attractive magnet for votes, quite the opposite, and this is compounded by the fact that the prime minister’s popularity has clearly declined since the Middle Ages. -2021, when 49% of voters disapproved of his management, when on July 19 he ordered lifting of every restriction across the country to avoid contagion of coronavirus.

Despite the dire prospects, the politics of Bruce Willis from Great Britain can work wonders, although this time you will have to wait a few months, and not the hours that action films usually take place. @mundiario