The writer, my daughter, is an Italian medical student, trying to scrape together some cash for the weekend. She’s been told to be more careful in future, but the Boris Johnson saga is confusing for anyone who isn’t a UK news junkie – last year he resigned from x, this year from y, both in June, so the source articles got confused. It was a careless mistake by the writer, and the editor has apologised for not spotting it.

I would remind people that these bulletins are put together for educational purposes, by native Italian speakers who are not professional journalists. Also that they are made available free of charge to anyone who could benefit from them.

We’re not the BBC. We get no state funding, charge subscribers nothing for 156 bulletins of text + audio per year, and as a result neither I nor the editor get paid for our work.

So actually, it’s really not that surprising that there’s the occasional mess up.

Mi dispiace tanto per la confusione, la persona che ha scritto l’articolo ha trovato una fonte “vecchia” e, pensando che fosse attuale, l’ha rielaborata insieme alla fonte della notizia “nuova”.
Avrei dovuto accorgermene anche io, mi dispiace!

Johnson si è dimesso da Premier del Regno Unito e da leader del Partito conservatore il 7 luglio 2022, ovvero la scorsa estate. È stato sostituito da Liz Truss lo scorso settembre. È stata sostituita da Rishi Sunak in ottobre.

Questa settimana Johnson ha rassegnato le dimissioni da membro del parlamento (MP), si presume prima che fosse sospeso o forse addirittura espulso dal parlamento a seguito delle indagini sulla sua menzogna al parlamento.

May I point out the your article in today’s issue of EIN on Boris Johnson is inaccurate. The article appears to mix last year’s events with this week’s.

Johnson resigned as UK Premier and as leader of the Conservative Party 7th July 2022, i.e. last summer. He was replaced by Liz Truss last September. She was replaced by Rishi Sunak in October.

Johnson has this week, resigned as a Member of Parliament (MP), one presumes before he was suspened or maybe even expelled from parliament as a result of the investigation into his lying to parliament.