Christian Wakeford has become the latest Tory to submit a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister after a series of Downing Street parties during lockdown.
The Bury South MP branded the scandal as 'embarrassing' in a series of damning comments last week. Boris Johnson has been accused of lying to the House of Commons by claiming he thought that a "bring your own booze" garden party on May 20, 2020 was a work event. READ MORE:Parents blast school for not letting pupils attend without negative test More than 20 Tory MPs who were elected at the 2019 election are expected to submit letters of no confidence in the PM, the Mirror reports.
One Tory MP was quoted as saying: "His time has gone." Another said: "I think we’ve done it... The whips operation completely backfired.
Colleagues now have a sense they aren’t alone." Mr Wakeford became the seventh Tory MP to publicly announce that he had sent a letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister on Tuesday (January 18).
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