Labour calls on Tory MPs to tell Boris to go
LABOUR councillors have written to Conservative MPs including David Rutley demanding they call for the resignation of Boris Johnson.
The group, of which Councillor Brian Puddicombe, for Macclesfield South is one, says the Prime Minister is ‘dragging the highest office in the land into the gutter’.
They also call for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to be given his marching orders.
It follows the news that both had been issued with Fixed Penalty Notices for attending parties at the height of the first Covid-19 lockdown.
In last week’s Macclesfield Express Macclesfield MP Mr Rutley said he had concerns about what happened at Downing Street during lockdown and it was right that the PM and Chancellor apologised.
But he also backed Mr Johnson to continue in his role, particularly with the challenges of the war in Ukraine and recovery from the pandemic on the agenda.
The Cheshire East Labour councillors are now calling for Mr Rutley and other Tory MPs in the borough to ‘put their country before their party and submit a letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister’. Coun Puddicombe said: “Enough is enough. Boris Johnson is dragging the highest office in the land into the gutter.
“Many Tory MPs have been lying low up to this point under the guise of waiting for the outcome of Prime Minister the police investigation. Chancellor.
“Well now we have an He has said: “I am outcome, it’s time to appalled that we did not come off the fence and see that selflessness at call for The Prime Minister the heart of government. and the Chancellor to “Those setting the regulations-leaders-should go.”
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Bruce, Congleton, Council leader Sam Corcoran added: “Our Kieran Mullan, local MPs should act to Crewe uphold respect for the and Nantwich, law and the Ministerial and Code.
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“It’s time to come off the fence and call for The Prime Minister to go.”