Boris Johnson is "on probation" and could still be removed from office if he fails to win back the trust of Tory MPs, a former minister and Tory peer has said.
27.05.2022 - 15:59 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Tory MP has resigned as a ministerial aide after saying he was "shocked and angered" by the behaviour described in the Sue Gray report.
Paul Holmes, MP for Eastleigh and a ministerial aide to Home Secretary Priti Patel, said there was a "deep mistrust" in Boris Johnson's Tory party.
He is the first member of the government to resign following the publication of the report.
In a post online, he wrote: "As I have always made clear I, like most of you, was shocked and angered by the revelations when so many people across Eastleigh followed the rules and sacrificed many things in the need to stop the spread of the virus."
He said a "deep mistrust" in the Tories has been created by the lockdown breaches as he tried to represent constituents with integrity.
"It is distressing to me that this work on your behalf has been tarnished by the toxic culture that seemed to have permeated Number 10," he wrote.
"Over the last few weeks this distress has led me to conclude that I want to continue to focus solely on my efforts in being your Member of Parliament and the campaigns that are important to you.
"That is why I have now resigned from my governmental responsibilities as a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Home Office.
"It is clear to me that a deep mistrust in both the Government and the Conservative Party has been created by these events, something that pains me personally as someone who always tries to represent Eastleigh and its people with integrity.
"Whether that is taking up your issues in Parliament or helping people with their problems closer to home, since 2019 we have completed over 12,000 pieces of constituency casework. It is distressing to me that this work on your behalf has been tarnished by the toxic culture that
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COVID lockdowns.Gray’s long-awaited 37-page report, which includes nine photographs featuring Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was published this morning (May 25) and can be read in full here.“Whatever the initial intent, what took place at many of these gatherings and the way in which they developed was not in line with COVID guidance at the time,” the report says.“Even allowing for the extraordinary pressures officials and advisers were under, the factual findings of this report illustrate some attitudes and behaviours inconsistent with that guidance.”Gray concluded in her report that “a number of these gatherings should not have been allowed to take place or to develop in the way that they did”, and said that “there is significant learning to be drawn from these events which must be addressed immediately across Government”.In a statement given to the House of Commons this afternoon, Johnson said that he “takes full responsibility for everything that happened on my watch” and that proposals for “change and reform” of Downing Street are being implemented.“It is clear from what Sue Gray had to say that some of these gatherings went on for far longer than was necessary and they clearly fell in breach of the rules,” he told MPs, before saying that he had “no knowledge” of proceedings until the report as “I simply wasn’t there”.In response to Johnson’s statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that Gray’s report “lays bare the rot that under this prime minister has spread in Number 10, and it provides definitive proof of how those within the building treated the sacrifices of the British people with utter contempt”.Michael Kill, the NTIA’s CEO, has issued a response on the findings of the Gray report, saying that the