MPs and aides in Westminster are on tenterhooks this evening as to whether more ministers will follow in the footsteps of Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak and resign. Yet while some ministers are for now maintaining a vow of silence when it comes to their plans (most notably Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi), others have come out to make clear that they continue to back Boris Johnson as Prime Minister in a bid to stabilise him.
Among those staying in post are Liz Truss – with a source close to her saying the Foreign Secretary is 100 per cent behind the Prime Minister
Among those staying in post are Liz Truss – with a source close to her saying the Foreign Secretary is 100 per cent behind the Prime Minister – Michael Gove, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Ben Wallace, Dominic Raab and Nadine Dorries (Coffee House has a full list here). These ministers have decided to stick with Johnson – and are names to watch in the cabinet reshuffle Johnson will now have to carry out after losing three senior cabinet ministers in the space of a fortnight.
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