Boris Johnson faces the task of convincing Conservative MPs that he can still lead his party in the next general election, despite being booed by the crowd in front of the Queen’s platinum anniversary service.
In another humiliation for the prime minister, desperately trying to prevent a no-confidence vote, he was greeted with a strong chorus of boos, taunts and booes as he climbed the stairs of St. Paul’s Cathedral with his wife, Carrie, on Friday.
BBC presenter Jane Hill noted that there was a “significant amount” of booing when Johnson entered the cathedral. The prime minister was also puzzled when he left office – a man was heard shouting “Fuck you, Boris”.
A Labor source told The Independent: “The whistles for the prime minister will be a harsh wake-up call for those Tory MPs who denied public anger at the industrial-scale law violations they saw in number 10.”
This comes when it is said that Downing Street is preparing for a “charming offensive” of hesitant rebel MPs in the hope that they can be won and avoid a leadership vote.
About 30 assholes have publicly called for the prime minister to resign, and the rebels involved believe they are close to reaching the threshold of 54 no-confidence letters needed for a leadership vote.
Not even 10 officials have compiled a list of 64 Tory MPs who believe they can still be won, including senior figures such as Theresa May, Tom Tugendhat and Julian Smith, according to The Telegraph.
Rebel Tory MPs, meanwhile, have expressed concerns about the timing of a call for Mr Johnson’s removal, with some expressing doubts that next week is the right time to trigger a no-confidence vote.
A Tory MP who wanted to see Mr Johnson’s replacement call on his colleagues to withdraw their no-confidence letters to prevent the vote from happening “accidentally” early next week, according to The Guardian.
Earlier, the rebels told The Independent that they feared the no-confidence vote could be triggered too soon “by accident” – giving Johnson a good chance to stay in power for another 12 months.
Tory rules mean that a majority of the party’s 180 MPs will have to vote against Mr Johnson in order to provoke a race to find his deputy. If the prime minister survives, he is protected from a new vote for one year.
Concerned anti-Johnson activists are said to fear that potential candidates for leadership have not had enough time to mobilize and encourage hesitant lawmakers to look beyond Mr Johnson.
Some believe the run-off after two by-elections on June 23rd would be the best chance for the prime minister to win a vote of confidence.
Andrew Bridgen, a Tory MP who recently resubmitted his letter after withdrawing it in the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, reportedly predicted in a Tory WhatsApp group that number 10 would be told on Monday that 54 letters had already been sent. sent to the chairman of the commission in 1992, Sir Graham Brady.
Tory MP Mark Francois, who did not call for Johnson to leave, suggested that the prime minister still had work to do to convince many of his hesitant backstage that things would change after Partygate.
“We will return on Monday and colleagues will ask, ‘Who will take responsibility for this?'” He told Times Radio on Friday. “After talking to colleagues over the last few days, the mood is, they want to know, ‘Who’s going to carry the box?’
This comes when the leader of the grassroots Conservative activist group called on Johnson to resign over the Partygate scandal, saying the prime minister would “repel voters” in the next general election.
Ed Costello told The Telegraph that Mr Johnson was not “completely honest” about the illegal gatherings on Downing Street. “If he had any sense, he would resign before he was pressured.
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