Two key Boris Johnson aides have quit No.10 tonight – plunging Boris Johnson’s leadership further into crisis – as Jack Doyle follows Munira Mirza out the door
The departures from heap further pressure on the PM, who is facing mounting calls to quit from disgruntled Conservative MPs.
Mirza’s resignation is particularly damaging as she has been one of Johnson’s closest, and most loyal, aides in Downing Street. Dominic Cummings, a friend of Mirza’s and Johnson’s one-time chief adviser and now sworn enemy, tweeted: “Moral courage from Munira who has done her best to make progress with a professional team throughout the horror since 11/20. It’s also an unmistakeable signal the bunker is collapsing & *this PM is finished*. Flicker of moral courage from Cabinet & Cabinet Office asap please.”
On the PM’s Savile remarks, the Chancellor said: “Being honest, I wouldn’t have said it and I’m glad the prime minister has clarified what he meant.”“I have the highest regard for the Chancellor...but it is my view that it was a perfectly reasonable remark for the PM to have made,” he reportedlyEarlier, Johnson climbed down from his initial claim, made on Monday, that Starmer had “spent most of his time [as DPP] prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile”.
Tobias Ellwood, the chairman of the Commons defence committee, said the “false allegation” should be withdrawn.
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