>The senior Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood has revealed he is to submit a letter of no confidence in Boris Johnson , as more Tories broke cover to criticise the prime minister after the Sue Gray report into the Downing Street lockdown parties. Ellwood, who is chair of the defence committee and a former Foreign Office minister, is the fifth MP to publicly declare intentions to submit a letter after the Scottish Tory leader, Douglas Ross, and the backbenchers Andrew Bridgen, Sir Roger Gale, and Peter Aldous. The former prime minister Theresa May, Aaron Bell from the 2019 intake and veteran backbencher Gary Streeter have also been publicly critical of Johnson, while the centrist Tory MP Tom Tugendhat has declared he would run to replace him in any leadership contest.
I think… I really am starting to think he’s not getting out of this one. It’s feeling a bit terminal
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>The senior Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood has revealed he is to submit a letter of no confidence in Boris Johnson , as more Tories broke cover to criticise the prime minister after the Sue Gray report into the Downing Street lockdown parties. Ellwood, who is chair of the defence committee and a former Foreign Office minister, is the fifth MP to publicly declare intentions to submit a letter after the Scottish Tory leader, Douglas Ross, and the backbenchers Andrew Bridgen, Sir Roger Gale, and Peter Aldous. The former prime minister Theresa May, Aaron Bell from the 2019 intake and veteran backbencher Gary Streeter have also been publicly critical of Johnson, while the centrist Tory MP Tom Tugendhat has declared he would run to replace him in any leadership contest.
I think… I really am starting to think he’s not getting out of this one. It’s feeling a bit terminal
[11 out of the required 54, with a further 28 suspected to have sent in letters of no confidence.](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dKQnAE3y-aQ–tgHvKEdKg9jyG-zwEsilRqgEFNbCt8/edit#gid=0)
Ellwood is one of the better Tories