Downing Street parties: Plotters against PM consider releasing recording of ‘heated’ exchange with chief whip after intimidation claims

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  1. Add:

    >[Telegraph: War on the whips as Tory rebels threaten police action amid blackmail claims](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/01/20/war-whips-tory-rebels-threaten-police-action-amid-blackmail/)
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    >So-called ‘pork pie plotters’ fight back as Boris Johnson denies that government enforcers made threats against MPs seeking to oust him
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    >[Mail: Revenge of the Pork Pie plotters](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10425015/Boris-Johnson-rips-diary-woo-wavering-MPs-bid-head-leadership-challenge.html): Tory rebels trying to oust Boris Johnson consider publishing dossier of messages from whips after accusing government of ‘blackmail’ – as PM rips up diary to woo wavering MPs

    > * Tory rebels considering weaponising recorded messages and texts from whips
    > * One MP is said to have recorded a heated call with chief Tory whip Mark Spencer
    > * If messages show blackmail, it could humiliate PM after he denied it took place
    > * Comes as Partygate inquiry by ethics chief Sue Gray to be published next week
    > * PM to meet with concerned MPs one to one while others will be in small groups
    > * PM to urge MPs to ‘look at the bigger picture’, including recent Covid successes

  2. And how long before it turns out BJ was on that call, and used the word ‘blackmail’ 27 times in a row, despite having seen no evidance.

    Maybe Dominic Cummings was right all along but it’s BJ that needs to drive to Barnard Castle.

  3. Why not release it to the speaker of the house and the met police? Get those fuckers in deep water. Granted the court of public opinion is just as scary, but They literally had this discussion in commons yesterday.

  5. Very trump politics to call them plotters, they want the leader of the country to be held to account for breaking the law, lying, being corrupt and incompetent, ranking the economy and quite possibly bringing forward the apocalypse, and this is somehow a sinister plot by unreasonable elements?!

  6. Nah what you do is threaten the chief whip of exposing them to the public if they don’t fuck off.

  11. This gives Johnson time to come up with a counter-offensive. They should have released them last thing today, giving the media enough time to cover the recordings in detail, while also forcing Johnson to stew and wait until Monday to come up with a proper excuse.

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