They're all leaving...Sunak and Javid Quit

[Snooky]

I just wonder if there's enough disaffection in the Tory's to go with it, as they're not the brightest bunch and may fail to realise the implications.

Yet somehow, despite their alleged stupidity, they managed to achieve a 2019 GE win (with a larger majority than Blair's 1997 landslide) and have doggedly managed to hold onto power. The opposition is just a shambles - just two weeks ago opinion polls predicted that Labour still wouldn't win a GE and there'd be a hung parliament - see https://www.politics.co.uk/reference...opinion-polls/

Much as I'd like to see the back of this government and replace it with one which puts its citizens welfare first, I can't see it happening any time soon.

[d000hg]

Only if Labour propose it, as the official opposition, and enough Tory MP's support it. Can't see them doing that as it would force a GE if it succeeded. They want Johnson out, but to remain in power themselves.

Indeed the government has to allow such a vote. Presumably they won't.

[SueEllen]

Is it 16 who have resigned?

[SueEllen]

2 went during PMQs apparently.

[ladymuck]

Is it 16 who have resigned?

Some wag has started a page on WikiPedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...hnson_ministry

[SueEllen]

Some wag has started a page on WikiPedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...hnson_ministry

18 at the latest count.

[ladymuck]

18 at the latest count.

I suspect the editors can't keep up!

[SueEllen]

Kemi Badenoch on Twitter
“With great regret, I resigned from the government this morning. It has been an honour being Equalities and Local Government minister. It was a privilege to have worked with so many great ministerial colleagues and civil servants in these roles.”
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Kemi Badenoch, equalities minister, has gone https://twitter.com/KemiBadenoch/sta...73839363268616

[SueEllen]

Gove has appeared -
https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/n...its-time-to-go


MICHAEL Gove has told Boris Johnson he must go, The Mail+ can reveal.


At a meeting this morning, the Housing Secretary urged the Prime Minister to stand down.

Mr Gove helped Mr Johnson to prepare for Prime Minister’s Questions, but was noticeably absent from the frontbench as he faced MPs at noon.

Sources have told The Mail+ that beforehand the Cabinet minister told Mr Johnson he should quit.

A spokesman for Mr Gove did not dispute this.

It is understood the Housing Secretary is currently working in his Whitehall department and is not planning to lead a wider delegation of ministers to the PM.
Mr Gove famously torpedoed Mr Johnson’s Tory leadership bid following the Brexit referendum in 2016, when he withdrew support for his campaign and launched his own.
Despite a fresh wave of ministerial resignations today, Mr Johnson is defying calls to resign.

At Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said the ‘colossal mandate’ he had been handed by voters in 2019 means he should keep going despite the ‘difficult circumstances’ he faces.

His appearance in the Commons came as six more Government ministers and two ministerial aides quit, following the exit of senior figures including Rishi Sunak and Mr Javid yesterday.

Tory Tim Loughton asked Mr Johnson in the Commons if there are ‘any circumstances’ in which he should resign.

The Prime Minister replied: ‘Clearly if there were circumstances in which I felt it was impossible for the Government to go on and discharge the mandate that we have been given or if I felt, for instance, that we were being frustrated in our desire to support the Ukrainian people... then I would.

‘But frankly the job of a Prime Minister in difficult circumstances when he has been handed a colossal mandate is to keep going, and that's what I'm going to do.’
But Tory MP Gary Sambrook told Mr Johnson directly: ‘There is nothing left for him but to take responsibility and resign,’ while former Cabinet minister David Davis called on the PM to ‘put the interests of the nation before his own interests’.

Mr Johnson's appearance in the Commons came as six ministers - Will Quince, Robin Walker, John Glen, Victoria Atkins, Jo Churchill and Stuart Andrew - quit.
The Prime Minister stayed in the Commons chamber as former health secretary Mr Javid set out the reasons for his resignation, saying Mr Johnson was not going to change and ‘enough is enough’.

Mr Javid said: ‘Treading the tightrope between loyalty and integrity has become impossible in recent months.
‘I will never risk losing my integrity.’

He said ‘the problem starts at the top and I believe that is not going to change’.

In a message to Cabinet ministers who decided not to quit, he said: ‘Not doing something is an active decision.

‘I'm deeply concerned about how the next generation will see the Conservative Party on our current course.

‘It is incumbent on all of us to set high standards for ourselves and to take action when they are not met by others.’

[SueEllen]

Liam Fox is telling him to go.
https://twitter.com/LiamFox/status/1...XZ5CSCAHw&s=19

27 have resigned.