The Justice minister, Lord Wolfson, has publicly resigned from government over Boris Johnson’s decision to stay in office, following his fine for breaking Covid laws.
Lord Wolfson denounced the PM’s actions, saying: “The scale, context and nature of those breaches mean that it would be inconsistent with the rule of law for that conduct to pass with constitutional impunity.”
Elsewhere, Conservative MPs backing Boris Johnson after he was fined by police for breaching Covid laws are endorsing dishonesty and lawbreaking, Ed Davey has suggested.
The Liberal Democrat leader said the prime minister should resign as a “matter of principle”, after he and Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, were handed fixed penalty notices for attending a birthday gathering for Mr Johnson in the cabinet room in June 2020.
“Conservatve MPs who are coming out on programmes like this and backing the prime minister are basically associating the whole party with this law-breaking, this dishonesty,” Mr Davey told Sky News.
“They’re all now guilty,” he added. Both the prime minister and chancellor are refusing to quit over the Partygate scandal.
