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Jul 2022
Last Updated: 06/07/2022
Andrew Jones MP calls on Boris Johnson to resign
"I think we have come to the end of the road with this Prime Minister" the Conservative MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough says.
Andrew Jones, Harrogate and Knaresborough MP.
Harrogate and Knaresborough Conservative MP, Andrew Jones, has called on Boris Johnson to resign as Prime Minister.
It's been a day of mass resignations at Westminster with Boris Johnson's position becoming more precarious by the minute.
This afternoon Andrew Jones MP published a statement on his party's Community News website calling for Mr Johnson to step down.
Mr Jones has already made his unhappiness with Mr Johnson clear when he voted against him in a confidence vote.
This was before the furore over the former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher.
In his statement Mr Jones said:
“Nothing has happened which has changed my opinion of the Prime Minister’s conduct since the no confidence vote just a few weeks ago when I voted no. In fact the behaviours which put me in that position have continued. This is disappointing as I was willing to give the Prime Minister time to change those behaviours but recent events show that he is unable to do so. Indeed he has quite clearly said that he will not be changing.
“For that reason I think we have come to the end of the road with this Prime Minister. It doesn’t take a genius to read the room. The Prime Minister should do that and move aside for the good of the country and our politics.”
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In an update this evening, Conservative MP for Ripon & Skipton Julian Smith has also suggested that the PM should resign.
https://twitter.com/JulianSmithUK/status/1544713188486389763
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