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Fine to stay?

There are renewed calls for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign from office after the Metropolitan Police announced that both he and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishisunak will have to pay fines for attending Covid-19 lockdown parties at Downing Street.

Of course [Boris Johnson] won't, he's got more front than Blackpool!

Philip Richard Allen

So how many Labour & SNP MPS have been fined for breaking Covid-19 laws

– is it the case that only Conservatives get fined?

Les Jones

Didn't Sunak criticise Johnson at one point? Now it turns out he was guilty too.

Maralyn Donnelly

No, they are both completely and utterly entitled and “laws are for the oiks”, of course, the mantra of the

Tories. They broke their own laws, the ones they set themselves, the ones they said other people had to observe, in press conferences and everything. Both men. Straight to camera, even.

Mike Gourlay To think I stayed at home! I’m a clown.

John W Grant

That’s the least of [Johnson’s] many failings… he’ll brass it out and the gullible public will accept it, no doubt!

Cath Cunningham

Johnson should have been forced to resign when he prorogued Parliament once it was ruled as unlawful in court. Now, yet again he has broken the law. Yes, undoubtedly they should both resign and do so as quickly as possible so that a general election can be held.

Marie-claire Rackham-mann

As far as I understand it, these fines are slightly less serious than a speeding offence so I suspect it’s very unlikely that Boris and Sunak will step down. Why should they. Most people don’t think they’re speeding – until the fine arrives with the mail.

Dave Workman Of course they should. They should have resigned multiple times over multiple issues and possibly been arrested for a few of them. It's like being governed by a less scary Al Capone and his mobsters.

David Drummond

Yes, yes and yes. Get rid of them both. Saying that, the alternatives aren't any better.

Jane Janey Coates

No they shouldn't. They are only human… most of us are responsible for breaking the lockdown law in some way.

Their replacements wouldn't be any better.

Jill Wallace Did a few glasses of wine and strips of tinsel (while working long hours in the office) cancel out doing pretty well on the “big calls” – successful furlough scheme, developing one of the world's first vaccines and rolling out the fastest vaccination programme in Europe (all of which benefited Scotland as part of the UK)?

Peter Lewis A terrible comparison. You're deliberately missing the bigger picture.

Haig Reynolds Of course not, but these silly attacks won’t stop until another leader is appointed and then they will start again on him or her until Labour get in, and then they’ll start all over again against the Labour leader. Time to grow up and see things in better context. War in Europe, inflation and the energy crisis are the real current concerns, not someone who had a sausage roll when they shouldn’t have.

Ralph Hilton Of course they should, just concerned about which of the rest of the idiotic cabinet we would get!

Jenny Copeland

Absolutely yes! The fact that they are both still denying it on the news right now is appalling! Never trust a Tory!

Fiona Hunter

It doesn't seem to matter any more, they do what they want to, unless there is a General Election coming up.

Kris Grant

Why haven’t they resigned? The T ories were quick enough to call for Nicola

Sturgeon’ s resignation even though it was proved she did nothing wrong.

Julie Vongoolie

Not at this time, Britons need leadership at this time of war. Not political fighting.

Elliott Darcy Nixon

Just re-read what you have just said without a shred of irony… "Britons need leadership" Yes. Yes we do. Where do you think we can find it right now, behind the lies and half truths, lawbreaking and fines?

Darren Ward

Yo u require a leader you and your followers can trust. And at the current moment the Tory Party does not have a single person you could trust.

Neil Munro

Margaret Thatcher was ousted during the first Iraq war and Neville C hamberlain was ousted in 1940 during W orld War Two . A lying law breaker cannot provide leadership that the country will respect.

David Howie