Partygate: Senior Tory Sir Bob Neill submits no confidence letter as number of MPs calling for Johnson to go ramps up

7 comments

  2. > Sir Bob, who chairs the Justice Select Committee, said Ms Gray’s report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street has “highlighted a pattern of wholly unacceptable behaviour” by some working in Number 10.

    Neill writes in [a statement on his website](https://www.bobneill.org.uk/news/statement-publication-sue-grays-report):

    > I have listened carefully to the explanations the Prime Minister has given, in Parliament and elsewhere, and, regrettably, do not find his assertions to be credible. That is why, with a heavy heart, I submitted a letter of no confidence to Sir Graham Brady on Wednesday afternoon.

    But as well as his no doubt sincerely felt distrust of Johnson, Neill clearly has an eye on his electoral chances:

    > He wrote in the Telegraph that for the Conservatives to win the next general election, “it requires a change of leader” as he highlighted how his safe Tory seat of Bromley lost seats in May’s council elections because people “could not support us under Boris’s leadership”.

    There must be plenty of Tory MPs currently weighing the same calculus of expedience.

  3. Anyone know how many are needed to get rid of Boris ???
    I don’t expect it to happen the Tory party would let the U.K. burn before they let go of a hold on the goverment.
    maybe it’s better to say let the U.K. freeze come winter when we can’t turn the heating on

  4. The fact that the Tories are so slow to react shows that they don’t actually care about the rule of law, this is just an internal power game playing out.

    If they actually cared one iota, hundreds of them would have filed letters months ago.

    Remember their inaction at the next GE.

  6. Will we see any more spineless 2019 MPs give up unpaid cabinet roles but not put in their letter of no confidence, therefore doing absolutely nothing at all to solve the problem?

Leave a Reply