The crisis engulfing Boris Johnson’s government deepened as four top aides quit, with one unleashing a devastating attack on his judgment.
The U.K. prime minister’s chief of staff, Dan Rosenfield, and his principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds both resigned on Thursday, as did his director of communications, Jack Doyle. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak also gave a subtle rebuke to the prime minister over an attack on opposition leader Keir Starmer that he suggested went too far.
Most damaging was the exit of Munira Mirza, one of Johnson’s longest-standing allies, who quit as head of the policy unit in protest over the “scurrilous” remark in which the prime minister blamed Starmer for allowing an infamous child-sex abuser to escape justice.
