North East MPs have called for Boris Johnson to quit now after both Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid resigned from the government.
The prime minister’s future was thrown into severe doubt on Tuesday evening as the chancellor and health secretary resigned within minutes of each other. The bombshell announcements came after Mr Johnson was forced to apologise and admitted he had known about previous allegations of “inappropriate” conduct by Chris Pincher, who was suspended last week, before appointing the Tamworth MP as deputy chief whip.
After seeing two of the most senior members of the Conservative cabinet quit, top Labour figures in the North East called on the PM to go too. Newcastle Central MP Chi Onwurah said: “It should have been game over for Boris a long time ago. This has told us what we already knew, that his own cabinet did not have confidence in him but they were just too scared to speak out.
