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Eugene

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Wed Jan 12, 2022, 03:17 PM Jan 2022

Tory MP William Wragg says Johnson should quit, saying he's damaging reputation of party

Earlier DU thread: Boris Johnson admits attending Downing Street party during lockdown

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Source: The Guardian

Senior backbench MP joins Scottish Tory leader in calling for Johnson to resign over No 10 lockdown party – live

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3h ago 7:29

Tory MP William Wragg says Johnson should quit, saying he's damaging reputation of party

The Conservative MP William Wragg, chair of the public administration and constitutional affairs committee and a vice chair of the backbench Conservative 1922 Committee executive, has joined those saying Boris Johnson should quit. In an interview with the PM programme he said:

Unfortunately, I wasn’t reassured [by what Johnson said at PMQs]. I fear this is simply going to be a continuing distraction to the good governance of the country.

And I’m particularly concerned, as a Conservative MP with interests of the country, my constituency and the Conservative party, that a series of unforced errors on matters of integrity are deeply damaging to the perception of my colleagues and the party. And that is deeply unfair to them.

As colleagues are saying to one another and off the record, I sadly think that the prime minister’s position is untenable.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/jan/12/boris-johnson-no-10-party-pmqs-keir-starmer-labour-coronavirus-latest-updates-covid-live?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-61df0e748f089631abd23c66#block-61df0e748f089631abd23c66
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Tory MP William Wragg says Johnson should quit, saying he's damaging reputation of party (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2022 OP
Translation... orwell Jan 2022 #1

orwell

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Wed Jan 12, 2022, 03:46 PM
Jan 2022

...We don't want all the rubes we've conned with our false "populist" narrative to catch on to the fact that we are the real elitist, authoritarian, existentialist threat to democracy.

This is the same playbook for the RePubeLieCons here in the "colonies."

TFG and Johnson..."men of the people"...

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