Accepting a resignation is not the same as sacking. He said he considered the matter closed on Friday, which doesn't allow time to consider the matter or the public response. Johnson did his usual thing of trying to shut a scandal down and hoping it would go away.

I can understand your point if it were just about the affair. That I get. I understand that you'd want to give it a bit of time to measure the public response and how things could be played. But this wasn't about the affair. This a blatant "fuck you" to the entire country that deserved a sacking the second the dates were known, which they were right away.