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Towered said:
I could picture him being encouraged to resign. It's a very bad look.
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When I saw the breaking new alert from this morning and was surprised he was not. If he does not resign voluntarily, public opinion may force the issue. Brits have been locked down hard recently and having their PM flaunt the rules is going to piss alot of people off.
 
DSC said:
Things do not really "go" to the 1922 Committee. Despite its name it is NOT a committee but is the backbencher caucus of the British Conservative Party. You can bet your bottom dollar that these folk are getting VERY nervous about Boris and that there is lots of back-room discussion. The problem they have is that there is no obvious heir (and probably too many who think they are!)
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EDIT: A bit more info: "If 54 backbench Conservative MPs send letters to the 1922 committee it will trigger a leadership challenge."
 
DSC said:
Things do not really "go" to the 1922 Committee. Despite its name it is NOT a committee but is the backbencher caucus of the British Conservative Party. You can bet your bottom dollar that these folk are getting VERY nervous about Boris and that there is lots of back-room discussion. The problem they have is that there is no obvious heir (and probably too many who think they are!)
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Or at this rate, members who haven't been at a party during their lockdown.

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From Guardian today: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/18/boris-johnson-challenge-leadership-tory-mps

In his interview, Johnson refused several times to rule out resigning and some Tory MPs believe he could agree to step down rather than go through a confidence ballot of the parliamentary party, if 54 MPs submit letters against him.

Tory MPs said colleagues increasingly believed Johnson was more likely than not to face a confidence ballot, probably after the Gray report is published.

A frontbencher said: “The mood has turned dramatically. He’s in real trouble. And it’s not just the 2019ers panicking about their seats. It’s quieter older colleagues. Unless the report says something staggeringly good, we will have a challenge.”

Another Tory MP said: “It’s terminal. It’s turned from red hot anger to [a] cold, calculating sense of ‘How do we do this? And who are we supporting?’ … It’s a question of when, not whether.

The Daily Mail online has a story about a child saying "It's time"- which is NEVER good! See: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/...s-Partygate-grandparents-hilarious-video.html

The five-year-old said Prime Minister Boris Johnson has 'been naughty' and needs to go to the 'naughty centre' Little Layla Somani, from Leicester, Leicestershire, had been watching the news while having breakfast last week before taking it upon herself to explain the pressing political situation to grandparents Kanti Somani, 76, and Kusun Somani, 73. Her mother Devina Somani, 37, and father Nick Somani, 41, caught her hilariously detailed monologue on camera (left) and shared it online, where social media users hailed her a 'future PM'. Boris Johnson apologised for attending the party last week, saying he believed at the time it was a 'work event.' But today, Dominic Cummings gloated that the PM is 'hastening the inevitable' after he was torn apart over Partygate in an interview and left tearfully apologising to the Queen (right). The former chief aide twisted the knife insisting Mr Johnson was 'destroying his own support' after he complained that 'nobody told me' a 'BYOB' bash in the Downing Street garden in May 2020 was not a work event. As he desperately tries to defuse the crisis, a weary and miserable Mr Johnson flatly denied Mr Cummings claim that he lied to Parliament over whether he was warned about the potential lockdown breach in advance. But he repeatedly ducked saying whether he would resign if a civil service probe finds he did not tell the truth. At one point as he was confronted with the fact he needed to apologise to the Queen for a No10 leaving do on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral in April last year, the premier bowed his head and breathed heavily for several seconds, before seemingly composing himself and voicing 'deep regret' for what happened.
 
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