Boris Johnson has insisted questions over his leadership have been “settled” as one of his biggest critics said he should not be challenged within the net year.
OPINION - Ditch the yes men, Boris, or face the fate I watched Gordon Brown suffer
08.06.2022 - 18:07 / msn.com
post Platty Joobs Britain. Chuckling fondly at the memory of the Queen chatting marmalade sandwiches with Paddington bear. Then it hit us like a train on Monday morning.
I decided to treat myself to a bit of a lie-in after a busy weekend to be greeted by about 60 messages informing me that the Prime Minister was facing a vote of confidence and would I like to come on the airwaves to discuss it? I wasn’t the only one caught out. A Tory MP told me they had a rude awakening when they heard the news on the radio, had to leap out of bed, find a suit, race to the station and head to London. What next for the beleaguered Prime Minister? He and his allies, of course, came out swinging with a positive spin that would make Comical Ali blush.
Getting booed at the weekend should have been a hint, but no. It reminded me of that scene from Blackadder when Hugh Laurie declares “the public love me! Just the other day I was out on the street and they sang ‘we hail Prince George, we hail Prince George’. ” To which Rowan Atkinson replies dryly that they were in fact saying, “We hate Prince George, we hate Prince George.
” For a start, Boris Johnson needs more Blackadders around him and fewer supplicating, cringe yes-men and women. He also needs a cunning plan to avoid more trouble, particularly after the by-elections in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton which even loyal Boris supporters privately admit they will lose. Then there’s the Privileges Committee, which is looking into whether he misled Parliament.
There may be a vote on whether to suspend him from the House — which would be another historic first. It’s also difficult to unite his mutinous party on big policy challenges. On the economic crisis, which is only going to get worse,
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