Cabinet resignations: Who’s staying and who’s going? Ministers reveal if they are backing Boris Johnson after Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid quit

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  1. >As well as the chancellor and the health secretary, the following MPs have quit their posts:
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    >Trade envoy to Morocco, Andrew Murrison
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    >Bim Afolami has resigned as Tory vice chair

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    >Jonathan Gullis, who is understood to have been a Johnson loyalist, has resigned his role as Parliamentary private secretary to the Northern Ireland secretary.
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    >Saqib Bhatti MP has also announced he has resigned as a Parliamentary private secretary.
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    >Tory MP for Hastings and Rye Sally-Ann Hart, who previously backed Boris Johnson in June’s confidence vote, said she is no longer able to support the prime minister.
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    >Nicola Richards MP has also resigned as Parliamentary private secretary to the Department of Transport.
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    >Virginia Crosbie has announced she is resigning as parliamentary private secretary to the Wales Office.
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    >Stafford MP Theo Clarke has resigned as trade envoy to Kenya
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    >Alex Chalk resigns as solicitor general

  2. Boris will need to be dragged out

    Doesn’t look like anyone else is following Rishi or Sajid – mental bastards in cabinet

  3. Well, Mr Non-dom and Sir Private Healthcare have ran away, just an entire cabinet of enablers and grifters left to go… I don’t know who will be next to slither off, but I know Old Nads will stick by BJ till the end.

  4. Boris did say he wanted to remain leader until 2030 didn’t he?

    He meant 20:30 right? He’s got 40 minutes

  6. > [Andrew Murrison’s resignation statement](https://archive.ph/1ameY/88332a55755b23f0513aea89254209fd3f4a67b6.jpg)
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    > — Rt Hon Andrew Murrison MP (@AWMurrison) [July 5, 2022](https://twitter.com/AWMurrison/status/1544380831178825733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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    >A statement from me. In short, @RishiSunak and @sajidjavid have done the right thing.
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    > — David Frost (@DavidGHFrost) [July 5, 2022](https://twitter.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1544379667133734917)

    Comes with some thick statement you can ignore.

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    >[“Lost confidence” in Johnson, statement.](https://archive.ph/ZEITc/56f976c908cc7f8c1662c1b57d300676f2d89049.jpg)
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    > — Anthony Browne MP (@ab4scambs) [July 5, 2022](https://twitter.com/ab4scambs/status/1544382196844269571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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    > NEW: Jonathan Gullis has resigned his role as PPS. – [Statement](https://archive.ph/7YfvE/d750bb1e02c21172e9baecd2cac41b8073a131fb.jpg)
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    > — Richard Price – LDR (@journoontheedge) [July 5, 2022](https://twitter.com/journoontheedge/status/1544392843711627265)

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    > Honestly Jonathan Guillis resigning is arguable more damning than Sunak
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    > — Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) [July 5, 2022](https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/1544396485298737152)

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    >The Conservative party has always been the party of integrity and honour but recent events have undermined trust and standards in public life. It is for this reason that sadly, I must resign.

    >I will continue working hard for my constituents on the issues that matter to them. – [Statement](https://archive.ph/NZq1K/aba565b44db8f862d72ccd44ff51db8b644ff277.jpg)
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    >— Saqib Bhatti MP (@bhatti_saqib) [July 5, 2022](https://twitter.com/bhatti_saqib/status/1544393507036602368)

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    >Considering the further revelations that have come to light, and given that the integrity of Parliament must be upheld, on behalf of my constituents of Hastings and Rye I am no longer able to support Boris Johnson as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister.
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    > — Sally-Ann Hart MP (@SallyAnn1066) [July 5, 2022](https://twitter.com/SallyAnn1066/status/1544387468291674114)

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    >I will always remain loyal to my constituents and the Conservative Party. Tonight I’ve made the tough decision to resign as a PPS. – [Statement](https://archive.ph/Lv5wI/89c1487e1523dba7bc4c710915a2456be54770cb.jpg)
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    > — Nicola Richards MP (@Nicola4WBE) July 5, 2022

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    > With a very heavy heart, I submitted a letter of no confidence to the 1922 committee two months ago. I think it should now be clear to everyone that the Prime Minister must go. – [Letter of No Confidence](https://archive.ph/BZi4Z/d28ccf753429c348a88da661daddae743bea70d7.jpg)
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    > — Jo Gideon MP (@jogideon) [July 5, 2022](https://twitter.com/jogideon/status/1544399113726623744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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    >Ynys Mon MP Virginia Crosbie has resigned as PPS to the Wales Office. – [Page 1](https://archive.ph/SHEJb/0268620a6c40d786b91cba4999c200bc4644c9ea.jpg). [Page 2](https://archive.ph/xeYmB/92fffef38584f650df081ec739fd64353c8f44f6.jpg)
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    >— Adrian Masters (@adrianmasters84) July 5, 2022

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    >With great sadness I am resigning as Solicitor General. I won’t be doing media interviews. – [Statement](https://archive.ph/AmgiY/b4561c5c4d1e0af4c94d13070998bd4a77bb53b4.jpg)
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    >— Alex Chalk (@AlexChalkChelt) July 5, 2022

  7. Sunak and Javid are doing this to save their own image, not out of the goodness of their heart. If they cut their losses now then at least they can say they left Johnson over his lax attitude to scandal, which will hit the right note with some voters. Any further resignations will depend on how precarious they see Johnson’s position and whether they think it is smart enough to jump ship in the hopes of it causing an early general election.

  8. Usual “100% behind” sound bites from the rest of his cronies. Give it a day
    He won’t go voluntarily though.. they are going to be forced to have the committee change the rulebook on confidence votes and he will probably be dragged out kicking and screaming

    ^(Might actually be worth tuning into PMQ’s tomorrow)

  9. Sky lists Wallace as among the confirmed loyalists, but on the Sunak & Javid thread there were hints from social media that he may be jumping ship – has something changed to put him firmly on one side or the other?

  10. Of course the spineless fishman himself, Michael Gove, is still kissing BoJo’s arse in an attempt to get a few scraps from the table. Reading the list of ‘who’s staying’ (or any Tory list for that matter) reads like a catalogue of incredibly shit supervillains.

  12. It’s basically a _who’s who_ of the most incompetent, corrupt and unemployable people in politics.

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