Friday 24 June 2022 10:09 PM Boris Johnson is told by Cabinet ministers that he HAS to deliver as ex-leaders ... trends now
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Cabinet ministers last night told Boris Johnson he must ‘deliver’ on the public’s priorities as two ex-Tory leaders issued challenges to his leadership.
Senior colleagues including Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab and Home Secretary Priti Patel said the Government needed to ‘listen’ after Thursday’s by-election defeats.
Calling for the Government to concentrate on improving people’s lives, Mr Raab said: ‘We’re going to be relentlessly focused on delivery, not allow the distractions of recent times to take our eye off the ball.’ Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries added: ‘Last night was a reminder that we must be relentless in cracking on with the job of delivering.’
A bullish Mr Johnson vowed to ‘keep going’ and told a press conference in Rwanda that people would continue to ‘beat me up and say this or that about me to attack me’.
A bullish Mr Johnson vowed to ‘keep going’ at a press conference in Rwanda after two bruising by-election defeats
Senior colleagues including Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab and Home Secretary Priti Patel said the Government needed to ‘listen’ after Thursday’s by-election defeats
‘That’s fine, that’s right. That’s the job of politicians,’ he added.
But former Conservative leader Michael Howard urged the PM to resign for the good of his party and country.
The Conservative peer told BBC Radio 4’s World At One: ‘The party and even more importantly the country would now be better off under new leadership. Members of the Cabinet should very carefully consider their positions.’
Fellow former Tory leader William Hague also urged Cabinet members to consider resigning, telling Times Radio: ‘There comes a point for a party where it is potentially heading towards a disaster and there’s tremendous loss of faith among party activists as well as voters around the country.
‘There does come a point where Cabinet members need to steel
