'Too weak to lead' Keir Starmer renews call for Boris Johnson to step down as Prime Minister

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Keir Starmer has said he doesn’t care which Tory leader he faces in a general election as he renewed calls for Boris Johnson to quit.

The Labour leader said it was now “in the national interest” that the Prime Minister stands down as he has lost all authority to ask the country to abide by rules he broke himself.

Starmer was asked in an LBC radio phone-in whether he would rather face a wounded Boris Johnson in an election than a replacement Tory leader.

he replied: “I’ll take on whoever is and I don’t really care. I think that it is in the national interest that Boris Johnson goes now.“Put the party politics to one side, he’s lost all authority and that matters, whichever party you’re in.“We’re still in the pandemic, it’s very important that people behave in the way that we need them to behave, but he’s lost the authority to ask people to do so.”He added: “But even if you put that on one side, we’ve got an energy bill crisis, we’ve got waiting lists in our hospitals, we’ve got Russian troops on the border with Ukraine, there are big issues going on.