Posted on 01/20/2022 1:14:04 AM PST by RandFan
Conservative MPs are starting to "step back" and think twice about a leadership challenge against Boris Johnson, a minister has said.
Conor Burns - a minister and long-term ally of the PM - said colleagues were now choosing to wait for the report into the No 10 lockdown parties.
It follows a dramatic day in Westminster with calls for the PM to quit and a Tory MP defecting to Labour.
No 10 has insisted the prime minister will fight any leadership challenge.
Mr Johnson has come in for severe criticism since admitting he attended a garden party held by No 10 staff in the Downing Street garden during the May 2020 lockdown.
On Wednesday, Tory grandee David Davis joined those calling for Mr Johnson to quit, telling him: "In the name of God, go." And backbench Tory MP Christian Wakeford defected to Labour, describing the PM as incapable of leading.
So far six Conservative MPs have publicly declared no confidence in the PM, but more are thought to have submitted letters to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the backbench 1922 committee, who organises Tory leadership contests.
There are claims that the threshold of 54 letters needed to trigger a no-confidence vote and leadership election could soon be reached, but no official word has been given.
However, some Conservatives have told the BBC the mood has changed, following the defection of Mr Wakeford.
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The inquiry into his parties and conduct reports next week.
“Looks like lifting COVID restrictions has saved Johnson — for now.”
it should.
He should be made King if he ends the insanity.
Everyone knows the Johnson is a dishonest person - and almost everyone critical of him, myself included, stretched or bent the rules during the recent plague. I say recent plague because to all intents and purposes it’s over.
He should have set a better example but we know of his long history of dishonesty. He’s the loveable idiot we needed for the past 3 years to deal with Brexit and the Wu-Flu.
History will show that the British* once again stopped the left from controlling their lives.
* Scotland & Wales are absolute basket cases right now with their draconian lockdown rules. Their voters have some important decisions to make at the next election.
“ Looks like lifting COVID restrictions has saved Johnson”
I think that policy disagreement was the real driver, in the no confidence push.
I’m glad he did the right thing and lifted the restrictions - even if it was like pulling teeth.
That should defuze most of the rebellion in his Party.
He is also lazy. He doesn’t like to work. He shows up unprepared and tries to excuse it with his schoolboy smirk and aloofness.
Things would be better if he was replaced by a more serious person.
This whole malady for Johnson was created out of thin air and whole cloth by the one MP who yesterday defected to the leftist Labour Party, and by the ever constant Liberal and Leftist press corp... Boris is the best thing to happen to the Conservative party in the UK, since Margaret Thatcher.
He isn’t as Conservative as she was, but he has the ability to fend of nonsense and he has surrounded himself with enough diehard Conservatives like Priti Patel... With their support, he will continue on and with any luck... When he leaves Priti Patel will take over and become a true Conservative Prime Minister.
Boris has been a feckless, dishonest, globalist disaster. He has his countrymen’s blood on his hands. He only did sort of the right thing here to keep his position—and presumably until the screws are turned still harder next time around.
That may all be true... But Johnson will win the next election and he will win it handily.
A hollow victory that would be, but it is still a ways off.
“He has his countrymen’s blood on his hands”
For what reason?
Killing all those elderly, especially, but also now the young, in the “plandemic”.
BTW, I see you’re new to FR this week—and quick to the globalist defense!
He’s like 15 points behind now
Are you sure about this?
Johnson’s lies will catch up with him.
He is a lying buffoonish idiot.
“Looks like lifting COVID restrictions has saved Johnson — for now.”
totally ... took the covid wind right out of the sails of his party’s dissident MPs ...
I’m beginning to think the Pork Pies thing has just been more Kabuki theatre to cover the UK’s Deep State’s cutting its losses on CoupFlu.
Note to the UK: Allow yourselves to be suckered, again, at your peril.
Of course he is.
Nowhere on the planet do Deep States hire front office types for character or for brains.
I’m sure... The Conservatives typically rank low in polls and then when they win (which is often) it’s a come from behind surprise. The media has railed against several incumbent Tory Prime Ministers, and that has resulted in some of them being overthrown... But the new Tory leader typically wins.
The Labour party in the UK is a mess, and the only reason why Blair managed to stay in power was his conservative stance on terrorism... England is a country of immigrants and the Tories have more immigrant support than the Labour party... Because they are against illegal immigration... Something traditional immigrants to England appreciate.
My guess is that Priti Patel will be the next Tory leader... She’s the daughter of legal immigrants, a true Conservative and strong supporter of Brexit.
“I see you’re new to FR this week”
Not sure why you believe that.
Under my LordOddsocks handle I can see posts from the beginning of last year (2021-01-15). We are now in 2022.
Under a previous handle, we go back to around 2001.
That makes me a 21 year lurker.
“Killing all those elderly”
I don’t disagree that many elderly people died needlessly.
Blaming Johnson for that is like blaming Trump (e.g. elderly deaths in NY). Neither was directly responsible for the actions of nation/state/local health decision makers.
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