The Tory party has been warned it is “sleepwalking to a defeat at the next election” unless it dumps Boris Johnson after two disastrous by-election defeats.
Conservative peer Gavin Barwell, who was Theresa May’s chief of staff in Downing Street, urged other cabinet members to follow the lead of Oliver Dowden who resigned as party chairman in the wake of losses to Labour in Wakefield and a massive defeat in Tiverton and Honiton to the Lib Dems.
Johnson loyalist Dominic Raab attempted to rally support for the Prime Minister who faces a backlash from Tory MPs while he is abroad.
