The list of resignations from Boris Johnson’s Government has grown to 16 in the last two days.
The Prime Minister is under growing pressure from within his own party to resign and backbenchers have said if he doesn’t, they will now remove him.
The Conservative MPs are considering changing the rules to hold another confidence vote to oust Johnson as leader.
They are confident they would now have enough to back a no confidence motion.
Last month Johnson survived by 211 to 148.
Many of those votes in support of Johnson were so called pay-roll votes, from members of the government.
The list of resignations added to other backbenchers, who have said they would vote against could be enough to tip the balance against the Prime Minister.
Yesterday Johnson was rocked with the resignation of two of the most senior cabinet ministers.
Johnson is about to face Labour leader, Keir Starmer and MPs at Prime Minister Questions today in the House of Commons.
The full list of resignations from cabinet ministers, junior ministers and other government roles:
Chancellor Rishi Sunak
Health secretary Sajid Javid
Will Quince, education minister
Alex Chalk, solicitor general
Robin Walker, education minister
John Glen, treasury minister
Victoria Atkins, justice minister
Parliamentary private secretaries
Jonathan Gullis, Northern Ireland Office
Saqib Bhatti, Department of Health and Social Care
Nicola Richards, Department of Transport
Virginia Crosbie, Welsh Office
Laura Trott, Department of Transport
Felicity Buchan, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Others
Bim Afolami, vice-chairman of the Conservative Party for youth
Andrew Murrison, trade envoy to Morocco
Theodora Clarke, trade envoy to Kenya
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel