Rishi Sunak has quit as chancellor and Sajid Javid has resigned as health secretary as Boris Johnson’s leadership faced a fresh crisis.
Mr Sunak said ‘the public rightly expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously’, adding: ‘I believe these standards are worth fighting for and that is why I am resigning.’
In an incendiary letter published minutes earlier, Mr Javid said the British people ‘expect integrity from their government’ but voters now believed Mr Johnson’s administration was neither competent nor ‘acting in the national interest’.
The resignations came as Mr Johnson was forced into a humiliating apology over his handling of the Chris Pincher row after it emerged he had forgotten about being told of previous allegations of ‘inappropriate’ conduct.
Liz Truss is reportedly “100% behind the PM”. I hope she never gets to be in power because if she thinks BJ’s behaviour is A-Ok, we are doomed even more than we are already…
Indeed one is bearable but two, and they’re pretty high profile at that, wonder what Sunac meant when he says :
“In preparation for our proposed joint speech on the economy next week, it has become clear to me that our approaches are fundamentally too different.”
I’m listening to Andrew Marr on LBC and they’ve contacted majority of cabinet and they all say they’re staying. But they can’t track down Nadhim Zahawi so don’t know about him and as he’s one who’s supposedly going to put his name forward, wouldn’t mind betting he does too.
Think he’ll have trouble replacing any of the cabinet members.
I suppose in reality, Boris is nothing without Dominic Cummings.
Interfering wife Carrie was the beginning of the end for Boris.
Listening to her, was a huge mistake.
