A Tory MP has called on Boris Johnson to quit as his position is untenable. Nigel Mills is thought to be the first Conservative backbencher to call for the Prime Minister to quit since he was fined for attending a birthday party in breach of covid rules.
Mr Johnson and the Chancellor Rishi Sunak were hit with criminal sanctions for attending a gathering in the Cabinet Room in June 2020. Following the fines Mr Mills told the PA news agency “we have every right to expect higher standards of people making these laws”.
Asked if he thought the PM’s position was untenable, the MP for Amber Valley told the PA news agency: “Yeah, I think for a prime minister in office to be given a fine and accept it and pay it for breaking the laws that he introduced… is just an impossible position. We’ve every right to expect higher standards of people making these laws… so the idea that he can survive having broken one and accepted he’s broken (it), I just think is impossible.”
