In damaging comments to The Telegraph, Sir Bob, a senior lawyer and chairman of the Committee on the Choice of Justice, said that “as a lawyer” he had “listened carefully to the explanations given by the Prime Minister” for Downing Street parties during the blockade. Covid.
“I am sorry, but I do not find his allegations that the rules were not broken or that he did not know about the violations to be credible. I cannot accept that he was not aware of much of what was happening.
“It is in the national interest for the Conservatives to win the next election, but that requires a change of leader to do so.”
The news came as a new prediction from opinion polls that Mr Johnson would lose almost every seat on the battlefield, including his own, if the general election is held tomorrow.
The YouGov poll predicts that the Tories will give up all but three of the 54 seats they took from Labor three years ago in reverse the Red Wall defeat in 2019.
Every constituency they won in the North of England would return to Sir Keira Starmer’s party, leaving only the trio in the Midlands blue.
In addition, the Conservatives will cede another 34 seats on the battlefield, which they won by 15 points or less in the last election.
MEPs called on Mr Johnson to retire in a frantic six-hour period starting at noon with Mr Holmes, an Eastleigh MP, criticizing “the toxic culture that seems to have penetrated number 10”.
Shortly after Sir Bob announced his intentions, Mrs Kearns, the Tory MP for Rutland and Melton, confirmed that she had submitted a letter of no confidence in January.
She said: “The government serves only with the trust of its people. This protracted affair has brought our government and my party into disrepute. My position has remained unchanged since January, and the Prime Minister continues to distrust me.
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