MADRID, June 30 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Britain’s Secretary of State for the Environment Zac Goldsmith resigned on Friday after criticizing the House of Commons Privy Committee’s investigation into former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Goldsmith, who argues that his resignation was due to the government’s “apathy” towards environmental issues, was rebuked this week by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for his comments about the Johnson case.

In a letter addressed to Britain’s ‘prime minister’, he accused Sunak of “showing no interest” in climate issues, according to information from the BBC television network.

While he made no mention of the Privileges Committee, he said he was “horrified” by the Government’s “abandonment” in its commitment to the Environment and deplored the “leaving of state leadership on this issue” around the world. “The problem is not that the government is hostile to the environment, but that our prime minister is not interested,” he said.

However, Sunak criticized his position and indicated that he had decided to resign after asking him to “apologize” for making an “unacceptable attack on the Committee”. Therefore, he emphasized that his position regarding this commission was “incompatible” with his position as Secretary of State.

“You were asked to apologize, but you have decided otherwise,” said the British president, still highlighting the work of Goldsmith, who has joined other conservative voices in criticizing the Privileges Committee in relation to the investigation. Downing Street during the pandemic when Johnson was Prime Minister.