Senior Tory MP Sir Bob Neill has submitted a letter of no confidence in Boris Johnson’s leadership as the number of Conservatives calling for the prime minister to go ramps up after the Sue Gray report.
Sir Bob, who chairs the Justice Select Committee, said Ms Gray’s report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street has “highlighted a pattern of wholly unacceptable behaviour” by some working in Number 10.
“I have listened carefully to the explanations the prime minister has given, in parliament and elsewhere, and regrettably, do not find his assertions, either that no rules were broken or that he was unaware of the breaches, to be credible. I cannot accept that he was not aware of much of what was going on,” the former lawyer wrote on Friday afternoon.
“That is why, with a heavy heart, I submitted a letter of no confidence to Sir Graham Brady on Wednesday afternoon.”
He wrote in the Telegraph that for the Conservatives to win the next general election, “it requires…
