A Scottish Conservative MP has admitted Boris Johnson should be considering his position over the Downing Street partygate scandal.
Andrew Bowie heaped more pressure on Johnson ahead of Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons. The MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine stopped short of calling for the PM's resignation but said a judgement could be made following the publishing of the Sue Gray report into lockdown breaching gatherings across Whitehall.
It comes as Bury South MP Christian Wakeford has defected from the Conservatives to Labour, telling Boris Johnson that "you and the Conservative Party as a whole have shown themselves incapable of offering the leadership and government this country deserves".Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomed MP Christian Wakeford's defection from the Tories, saying: "The policies of the Conservative government are doing nothing to help the people of Bury South and indeed are only making the struggles they face on a daily basis worse."Speaking on Politics Live, Bowie said: "He's in quite a lot of trouble.
And I don't think this is a place that we can be for much longer."There are so many issues facing the country right now, you've got the cost of living to deal with, we've got Omicron.
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