Conservative former minister Steve Baker has told MPs that Boris Johnson should quit, saying the 'gig is up." He said he had been tempted to “forgive” the Prime Minister for breaking Covid lockdown rules but conceded that possibility for him is now “gone”.
Mr Baker, who served as Brexit Minister, said the problem he has with Boris Johnson, “having watched what I would say is contrition, beautiful, marvellous contrition”, is that it “only lasted as long as it took to get out of the headmaster’s study”.
He said: “And that’s not good enough for me, and it’s not good enough for my voters. I’m sorry, it’s not. And I’m afraid I am now in a position where I have to acknowledge that if the Prime Minister occupied any other office of senior responsibility, if he was a secretary of state, if he was a minister of state, a parliamentary undersecretary, a permanent secretary, a director general, if he was a chief executive of a private company or a board director, he would be long gone.
