Boris Johnson faces a drip-drip of Conservative MPs calling on him to resign, as former Attorney General Jeremy Wright said Monday the so-called partygate scandal had done “lasting damage” to the government.
The prime minister had been hoping that with Parliament on holiday to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne, Tory rebels would be keeping relatively quiet back in their districts. The government is also rolling out a slew of announcements it regards as popular with Conservative voters, including a plan to bring back imperial measurements.
But the plan does not appear to be working. The number of Conservatives calling for a change of leadership is rising slowly but persistently, with 10 more going public since the publication last week of an internal probe into the illegal gatherings in Downing Street during the pandemic.
