Some grassroots Tories have told i Mr Johnson should leave office immediately rather than remain as caretaker Prime Minister at No 10
“What moral authority does he now have to govern? The second more practical point is that the Government still needs to take practical decisions in the intervening period,” he said.
Darius Laws, group leader of the Conservative Group on Colchester Borough Council, said the consensus among councillors he had spoken to is “a markedly different type of Prime Minister” is now required. “I think the parliamentary party is aware that the membership and the activists want this dealt with as quickly as possible, so that might sharpen their minds when it comes to coalescing around the frontrunners.”He said there was anger among Conservative councillors after Colchester MP Will Quince resigned over “inaccurate briefings” from No 10 aboutCllr Laws added: “We are in a WhatsApp group.
Conservative Party chairman for the North West Chris Whiteside said he was “deeply sorry” at Mr Johnson’s resignation, but that the handling of the Pincher affair was “the straw that broke the camel’s back” for many local voters.“If you look back over the last 30 years, whichever party was in office, where there has been a change of Prime Minister that was not at a general election, the outgoing person has stayed in office until their successor was elected.
He thought Sajid Javid had “acquitted himself well this week” and would be “looking very seriously” at him if he stands, but would “listen carefully” to all the candidates. “I can’t get too excited about this ‘go now’ kind of thing, that is just people putting the boot in, but he has obviously got to go,” he said.
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