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Post by Admin on Jul 6, 2022 19:31:07 GMT
There has rarely been a more bizarre day in British politics.
A mass exodus from Government ranks. Ministers and aides quitting almost by the minute. A delegation of Cabinet ministers, striding through the doors of Number 10, urging the Prime Minister to go - including newly appointed Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi, who only this morning was proclaiming his support for Mr Johnson.
All the while the Prime Minister himself appeared to be living some kind of alternative reality as he told MPs he was having a terrific week and was staying put.
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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2022 1:05:18 GMT
Boris Johnson is clinging to power and vowing to fight on, after the resignation of dozens of members of his government. Many believe the British Prime Minister cannot remain in office and will be forced out within days.
The latest crisis began with the resignation of Mr Johnson’s Chancellor Rishi Sunak and health secretary Sajid Javid. Since then more than 40 other ministers have resigned, with many of them calling on Mr Johnson to step down immediately or be forced from office.
It follows a series of scandals, with accusations that Mr Johnson lacks honesty and integrity and has repeatedly lied to his party and the country.
Recently more than 40% of his Conservative MPs declared that they had no confidence in Boris Johnson's leadership.
Many Conservatives believe the prime minister has become an electoral liability who is tarnishing the reputation of their party.
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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2022 6:43:48 GMT
Senior Tory David Davis says what he has seen from Boris Johnson ‘has been the opposite of leadership.’
It comes as more than 40 Tory MPs have now quit Government roles, with Helen Whately, a Treasury minister, also having resigned this morning.
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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2022 13:33:19 GMT
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Steps Down After Wave Of Scandals 5,275 views Jul 7, 2022 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation amid a wave of scandal and party resignations, saying he will remain as prime minister until a new leader is chosen.
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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2022 17:57:47 GMT
Sajid Javid told MPs “enough is enough” as he delivered a searing personal statement criticising Boris Johnson’s leadership following his shock resignation last night.
The former health secretary, who stepped down from Cabinet over the handling of the Chris Pincher affair, said last month he gave the Prime Minister “the benefit of the doubt one last time".
But he added he had now: “concluded that the problem starts at the top, that it is not going to change, and that those of us in a position to do so have a responsibility to make a change.”
Speaking in the Commons directly after Wednesday’s PMQs, he said he was "instinctively a team player" but “treading the tightrope between loyalty and integrity has become impossible in recent months”.
"I also believe a team is as good as its team captain and a captain is as good as his or her team,” Javid said. “So, loyalty must go both ways.
"The events of recent months have made it increasingly difficult to be in that team.
"It's not fair on ministerial colleagues to go out every morning defending lines that don't stand up and don't hold up.
"It's not fair on my parliamentary colleagues, who bear the brunt of constituents' dismay in their inboxes and on the doorsteps in recent elections.
"And it's not fair on Conservative members and voters who rightly expect better standards from the party they supported."
His statement came after a wave of further resignations from Johnson's government this morning, with multiple ministers standing down.
Referencing his previous resignations from government, he said “colleagues will be forgiven for sharing my sense of deja vu, despite what it might seem, I am not one of life's quitters”, adding that it was a “wrench” to leave the work fixing the NHS backlogs behind and plans to enact long-term reform of our health and care systems.
The Bromsgrove MP, who has served in both David Cameron and Theresa May’s Cabinets, also claimed he was lied to about the extent of parties in Downing Street during lockdown.
Javid said when the first stories emerged late last year he was “assured at the most senior level” that “there had been no parties in Downing Street and no rules were broken”.
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