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‘In the name of God, go’: UK’s Johnson faces demands to resign

19 January 2022, 5:33 PM  |
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street, in London, Britain, January 19, 2022.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street, in London, Britain, January 19, 2022.

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street, in London, Britain, January 19, 2022.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday dismissed calls to resign from opponents and some of his own lawmakers, fighting to save his premiership amid a deepening revolt inside his party over a series of lockdown parties in Downing Street.

Johnson, who in 2019 won his party’s biggest majority in more than 30 years, is now fighting to shore up his authority after a series of revelations about parties in his Downing Street residence during COVID-19 lockdowns.

Johnson has repeatedly apologised for the parties and said he was unaware of many of them. However, he attended what he said he thought was a work event on May 20, 2020, to which staff had been told to “bring their own booze”.

Johnson said on Tuesday that nobody had told him the gathering was against COVID rules. “I expect my leaders to shoulder the responsibility for the actions they take,” Brexit-supporting Conservative lawmaker David Davis told parliament.

Davis cited a quote from a Conservative lawmaker, Leo Amery, to then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain over his handling of war in 1940: “You have sat there too long for the good you have done. In the name of God, go.”

Asked directly by an opposition lawmaker if he would resign, Johnson said: “No”.

Toppling Johnson would leave the United Kingdom in limbo for months just as the West deals with the Ukraine crisis and the world’s fifth-largest economy grapples with the inflationary wave triggered by the COVID pandemic, with UK inflation rising to the highest level in nearly 30 years.

To trigger a leadership challenge, 54 of the 360 Conservative MPs in parliament must write letters of no confidence to the chairperson of the party’s 1922 Committee.

Implored to stay by one supporter, Johnson said he had not yet “sat here quite long enough, indeed nothing like long enough.”

As many as 20 Conservative lawmakers who won their seats at the last national election in 2019 plan to submit letters of no confidence in Johnson, the Telegraph reported.

A handful of others have already said they had written such letters. An analysis by The Times newspaper showed that 58 Conservative lawmakers had openly criticised the prime minister.

Leading rivals within the Conservative Party include Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, 41, and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, 46.

Opposition parties and labour have also called for his resignation:

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