The fall out from Boris Johnson’s resignation as an MP continues this morning
Nearly 300,000 people have signed a petition online calling for the Government to block the former MP’s honours list
On the media found this morning, Grant Schapps said that Johnson is “someone with many qualities,” there is now “new management” in Downing Street better suited to dealing with the “different challenges” facing the country.
He added: “The world has moved on… he is the one who removed himself from the current political scene… he was the right man for his time,” Shapps said of his former boss, before saying he felt the public were quite finished with all the “drama” of the Johnson era.
Tobias Elwood MP slammed Boris Johnson for comparing himself to Winston Churchill and says his actions are ‘akin to mutiny’.
‘Johnson has typically departed in his own style, kicking and screaming.’the Tory MP said
Andrew Marr writing in the New Statesman said
he behaves like a violent drunk finally expelled from his favourite pub; fists flailing, turning the air blue with furious invective, and pretending he is choosing to leave of his own accord,
Interviewed on GB news,one of his most loyal supporters denied Boris Johnson’s resignation statement was a ‘twisting of the knife’ in Rishi Sunak’s back and says the Tories need to return to Conservative values.
Meanwhile Downing Street has taken the highly unusual step of declassifying the list of Boris Johnson’s proposed peers that was approved by the House of Lords Appointments Commission
They did this to “prove” that the PM had not lied to Johnson when telling him he would approve
