It’s time for Boris Johnson to go, says Keir Starmer. Angela Rayner agrees: ‘Fundamentally the British public are starting to see that Boris isn’t fit to be Prime Minister’. Other members of the shadow cabinet think the same: the PM ‘should do the decent thing and resign now,’ says Labour Anneliese Dodds. But should they be careful for what they wish for?
Whether Labour really wants Johnson to go – at least not until he has fatally damaged his party by its association with a leader many in the public now regard as a blatant liar and hypocrite – is moot. In any case, the party does not get to make the decision: that rests in the hands of 54 Conservative MPs to first initiate a confidence vote and an additional 127 to express their lack of confidence in Johnson as leader in the ensuing ballot.
Until partygate, Johnson had befuddled Starmer’s party
For a time looking like a dead man walking, a few in Westminster now wonder whether Johnson’s tenure will end that way.
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