>Worried senior Tories want Boris Johnson to be forced out of No 10 immediately, fearing further damage after he bent the constitution in a desperate bid to stay in power.
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>The outgoing prime minister has signalled he intends to stay on as a caretaker until a new Tory leader is elected, probably in September – creating a two-month period of uncertainty.
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>The interim is normally uncontroversial, but never before has a prime minister initially refused to leave power after a cabinet revolt, or previously broken other laws and conventions. …
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>([🪞 link](https://archive.ph/lQcE6))
How can caretaker Johnson possibly work?
Are all the resigning ministers who cited their newly discovered integrity going to turn around saying “maybe he’s not that bad after all” and take their posts again?
Do all the excellent reasons the overwhelming majority of Tories wanted him to stop being PM suddenly lose their force?
The Tories are probably going to rally round and try and tough it out around the idea of “caretaker” PM Johnson, but he’s still PM and their credibility is flatlining.
Also, the mass resigners’ posts – the assumption that they’ll all trot back into place amid questions on whether they’ll deign to do so.
But they’ve resigned, and the posts are vacant.
If it’s not the “caretaker” PM who decides who fills the posts, who will decide it?
And whoever it is, it’s up to them who will fill them, *they don’t have to re-appoint the resigners*. This is a lot of responsibility to gift a “caretaker” PM trusted by a vanishingly small minority of MPs to conduct the business of government.
Opposition are tearing govt. spox a new one on these questions in the commons [right now](https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/a73b15d6-80ca-484e-9bf1-6cabcc5ab274). He can only refer forward to the unknown quantity of Johnson’s upcoming statement and repeat with no basis “the government will continue functioning”. No basis at all.
Throw the bum out
He has to go immediately now and I say that as someone who supported him staying as PM. We can’t have no Government for 3 months in the Ukraine war and cost of living crisis. It would be an absolute unmitigated disaster to the point where I would suggest even a Starmer led minority coalition would be better.
He either needs to leave now and a caretaker be appointed or they need to pick a leader immediately no vote. Just seething with how they forced him out for their own ambition at a moment where the country absolutely needs leadership, if something isn’t sorted the next 3 months will be hell and Ukraine will probably be Russian by the end of it.
As somebody who wants Labour In at the next election, I sort of want him to stay lingering for as long as possible.
Wouldn’t him staying on for 2 mo tha be in their best interests?
Get all the bad news out of the way on his watch
Kick him out today and put May in charge as caretaker.
_get in there tory lads_
What happens if Boris decides to call a snap election? How does the Tory Party decide who leads them?
Always associated Sam Allardyce with the word ‘caretaker’. Maybe draft him in with Sammy Lee as deputy.
Tories be trying to distance themselves from a guy they’d be rooting for and giving handjobs to if he’d gotten away with his dastardly plan.
First off all Carrie need to remove the wallpaper first. That’s takes time.
This being the guy they voted that they were confident in as a leader?
Johnson just wants to be able to spend the summer break at Chequers.
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>Worried senior Tories want Boris Johnson to be forced out of No 10 immediately, fearing further damage after he bent the constitution in a desperate bid to stay in power.
>
>The outgoing prime minister has signalled he intends to stay on as a caretaker until a new Tory leader is elected, probably in September – creating a two-month period of uncertainty.
>
>The interim is normally uncontroversial, but never before has a prime minister initially refused to leave power after a cabinet revolt, or previously broken other laws and conventions. …
>
>([🪞 link](https://archive.ph/lQcE6))
How can caretaker Johnson possibly work?
Are all the resigning ministers who cited their newly discovered integrity going to turn around saying “maybe he’s not that bad after all” and take their posts again?
Do all the excellent reasons the overwhelming majority of Tories wanted him to stop being PM suddenly lose their force?
The Tories are probably going to rally round and try and tough it out around the idea of “caretaker” PM Johnson, but he’s still PM and their credibility is flatlining.
Also, the mass resigners’ posts – the assumption that they’ll all trot back into place amid questions on whether they’ll deign to do so.
But they’ve resigned, and the posts are vacant.
If it’s not the “caretaker” PM who decides who fills the posts, who will decide it?
And whoever it is, it’s up to them who will fill them, *they don’t have to re-appoint the resigners*. This is a lot of responsibility to gift a “caretaker” PM trusted by a vanishingly small minority of MPs to conduct the business of government.
Opposition are tearing govt. spox a new one on these questions in the commons [right now](https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/a73b15d6-80ca-484e-9bf1-6cabcc5ab274). He can only refer forward to the unknown quantity of Johnson’s upcoming statement and repeat with no basis “the government will continue functioning”. No basis at all.
Throw the bum out
He has to go immediately now and I say that as someone who supported him staying as PM. We can’t have no Government for 3 months in the Ukraine war and cost of living crisis. It would be an absolute unmitigated disaster to the point where I would suggest even a Starmer led minority coalition would be better.
He either needs to leave now and a caretaker be appointed or they need to pick a leader immediately no vote. Just seething with how they forced him out for their own ambition at a moment where the country absolutely needs leadership, if something isn’t sorted the next 3 months will be hell and Ukraine will probably be Russian by the end of it.
As somebody who wants Labour In at the next election, I sort of want him to stay lingering for as long as possible.
Wouldn’t him staying on for 2 mo tha be in their best interests?
Get all the bad news out of the way on his watch
Kick him out today and put May in charge as caretaker.
_get in there tory lads_
What happens if Boris decides to call a snap election? How does the Tory Party decide who leads them?
Always associated Sam Allardyce with the word ‘caretaker’. Maybe draft him in with Sammy Lee as deputy.
Tories be trying to distance themselves from a guy they’d be rooting for and giving handjobs to if he’d gotten away with his dastardly plan.
First off all Carrie need to remove the wallpaper first. That’s takes time.
This being the guy they voted that they were confident in as a leader?
Johnson just wants to be able to spend the summer break at Chequers.