PM is truly a man without shame

ONE of Boris Johnson’s Ministers has seriously suggested that the Metropolitan Police should not be investigating law-breaking in Downing Street at all, saying “it’s not up to the police to decide who is Prime Minister”.

Ordinary members of the public were fined thousands of pounds for organising illegal parties on the very same days as some of the Downing Street “bring your own booze” events, but these arrogant politicians really do believe that it’s one rule for them and another rule for everyone else.

As one of the few moderate MPs remaining in the Conservative Party – after Boris purged the party of people with integrity like Eddisbury MP Antoinette Sandbach and former Chancellor Philip Hammond – has said: “We are giving the impression of a party that feels entitled, like it has a right to rule, and do what the hell it likes, how it likes, and when it likes.”

But since the police have rightly ignored the claim that the Tory elite are above the law and are investigating 12 possibly law-breaking parties held during lockdown, Boris is now claiming that if he is found to have broken the lockdown regulations which he himself announced, he will ignore that verdict and stay on as Prime Minister. He truly is a man without shame.

Surely at that point the spineless Tory MPs who have so far failed to call for a leadership ballot, many of them MPs for Cheshire constituencies who are utterly failing to represent their constituents, must call on Boris to resign?

If they don’t, the three living Conservative former Prime Ministers, John Major, David Cameron and Theresa May must step in and demand that Boris stands down.

They might also seek the support of former party leaders who did not become PM – William Hague, Iain Duncan-Smith and Michael Howard.

Between them, they should form a united front to save the country and their party from the constitutional outrage of a Prime Minister declaring that breaking the law is not a resigning matter.

Ian Gibson