A grandmother who was unable to meet her daughter's newborn baby during lockdown has called on the Prime Minister to resign.
Shameless Boris Johnson today refused calls to stand down amid a furious backlash over a number of parties held at Downing Street in 2020 and 2021.
Mindy Carheart, from Plymouth, says that she missed her daughter giving birth due to lockdown restrictions, adding that it was a "really upsetting" experience.
She told Plymouth Live : "My daughter had her baby at the very start of lockdown. I couldn't see her for a long long time and that was really upsetting.
"She was on her own and she did need the help and we had to abide by the rules.
"And if he was having parties etc, but he was denying he knew it was going on at his own house. He needs to go, I'm sorry he's got to go.
"You know what's going on under your own premises, I'm ever so sorry. Does he really need to be told? He's the Prime Minister, he knows what's going on."
Others have echoed Mindy's calls for the Prime Minister to resign.
Katie Halgreen, another Plympton resident, told PlymouthLive: "I think he should resign because he's making an idiot of himself, and idiots of all of us.
"I think it's really disgraceful. I just don't know how he could stand there saying what they asked us to do knowing what was going on...he's just digging himself a bigger hole.
"He should've manned up at the time and people would've maybe respected him. I've lost all respect for him."
Senior Tory David Davis told Mr Johnson he had spent weeks defending him from "angry constituents", including by reminding them of the "successes of Brexit ".
He said: "I expect my leaders to shoulder the responsibility for the actions they take. Yesterday, he did the opposite of that so I will remind him of a quotation which may be familiar to his ear: Leopold Amery to Neville Chamberlain.
"You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go."
Mr Johnson replied: "What I can tell him - I don't know what quotation he is alluding to - what I can tell him is and I think have told this House repeatedly, I take full responsibility for everything done in this Government and throughout the pandemic."
Seven Tory MPs have now publicly called for Mr Johnson to go, far short of the 54 required to submit letters of no-confidence to the backbench 1922 Committee.
One Conservative MP, Christian Wakeford today defected to the Labour Party, calling on the PM to resign from his post.
