A man who hired a van to dump a fridge freezer in the middle of a Salford street told council officers 'sorry, I didn’t know it was illegal'.
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Bury South MP Christian Wakeford has said Boris Johnson is "living on borrowed time" as he hit out at the prime minister for "poisoning the Tory Party from top to bottom”.
Mr Wakeford, who became the first elected Tory in the Greater Manchester constituency for more than 20 years in 2019, defected from the Conservatives to Labour on Wednesday.
He later claimed that he was threatened about the loss of a school in his constituency if he did not toe the line.
Writing in the Sunday Mirror, Mr Wakeford said: “Boris Johnson is living on borrowed time. He has poisoned the Tory Party from top to bottom.”
The Bury South MP said the investigation into No 10 by civil servant Sue Gray would show Downing Street was “hosting parties while the rest of us were obeying the rules”.
“The PM attended and then lied about it. He showed no respect for the Queen while she was in mourning for her husband,” Mr Wakeford wrote.
“His behaviour has been an insult not just to Her Majesty but to the whole nation.
“His lack of honesty and integrity has poisoned the once great party he leads.”
Mr Wakeford claimed that the "bully boys at Westminster" told him that he "wouldn’t get a promised new school in Bury South if I voted the wrong way".
"The police are now being asked to investigate allegations that other Tory MPs were blackmailed into putting Boris Johnson’s interests ahead of their own constituents," he said.
Mr Wakeford added he had “too much respect for the people who voted me into Parliament to stay silent in the face of such intimidation”.
The MP also criticised Mr Johnson's plans for levelling up, saying that people in his constituency wanted to see "wealth and opportunity" for the region under a Tory government.
"The Tories have let them
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