The list of resignations from Boris Johnson’s Government has grown to 32 in the last two days.
It has doubled in a matter of hours since he faced MPs at Prime Minister’s Question Time at Noon.
The BBC is now reporting that following a group of cabinet ministers are waiting inside Ten Downing Street to see the Prime Minister to tell him to resign.
READ MORE:Boris Johnson says he has a 'colossal mandate' and will continue as Prime Minister
At PMQs Johnson rejected calls to resign and instead said he would continue as he had a “colossal mandate”.
In response to a Tory Backbench MP who asked were there “Any circumstances in which he would resign, Johnson said: “The job of a Prime Minister when he has been handed a colossal mandate is to keep going.”
The Prime Minister is now under immense 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.
Taking just the resignations into account would take the vote to 180 against to 179 in support of Johnson.
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.
The full list of resignations from cabinet ministers, junior ministers and other government roles.
Rishi Sunak, Chancellor
Sajid Javid, Health Secretary
Will Quince, education minister
Alex Chalk, solicitor general
Robin Walker, education minister
John Glen, Treasury minister
Victoria Atkins, justice minister
Jo Churchill, environment minister
Stuart Andrew, housing minister
Kemi Badenoch, levelling up minister
Neil O'Brien, levelling up minister
Alex Burghart, education minister
Lee Rowley, business minister
Julia Lopez, culture minister
Mims Davies, work and pensions minister
Rachel Maclean, Home Office minister
Mike Freer, equalities 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
Elaine Saxby, Treasury
Claire Coutinho, Treasury
David Johnston, Department of Education
Duncan Baker, Department for Levelling Up
Craig Williams, Treasury
Mark Logan, Northern Ireland Office
Others
Bim Afolami, vice-chairman of the Conservative Party for youth
Andrew Murrison, trade envoy to Morocco
Theodora Clarke, trade envoy to Kenya
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