The ‘baby-faced assassin’ has struck again. William Wragg, the backbench Boris-basher, lobbed another grenade at the door of No. 10 today with his comments at the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee about the tactics being used by the Johnson regime. Wragg, who possesses the name of a septuagenarian but the appearance of an adolescent, claimed that his party’s whips are trying to undermine colleagues opposed to the current leadership.
He told an ashen-faced Steve Barclay that No. 10 staff, special advisers and government ministers had said there would be embarrassing stories released to the press if MPs did not support the Prime Minister. Wragg also claimed No. 10 had threatened to withdraw funding to his and other backbenchers’ constituencies if they did not withdraw their opposition to Johnson – a claim supported by the newly defected Labour MP Christian Wakeford
Among those quick to jump on the bandwagon was, surprise, surprise, Nicola Sturgeon, that purveyor of political ethics.
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