What we've had confirmed about the culture in Downing Street and why the curious tale of the meeting between Boris Johnson & Sue Gray - & who instigated it - matters. Me for .
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May 25, 2022
More Tory MPs urge Boris Johnson to resign over Partygate
The prime minister said he is "humbled" by Sue Gray's findings in her report, but reiterated that he did not lie to MPs and is not going to quit. Conservative MPs can force a leadership contest if enough letters of no confidence are written, but only around 18 have done so, according to the BBC - with 54 needed to trigger a vote on Johnson’s leadership.
More Tory MPs urge Boris Johnson to resign over Partygate
The rules do not apply for you can change them at will to protect yourself from wrong doing. How much more before the Tories remove this charlatan.
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After this week, I’m not surprised that the Prime Minister’s response to the Sue Gray report on the culture of rule-breaking in Number 10 is to change the Ministerial code so that Ministers who break the rules don’t need to resign.
Total disgrace.
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NEW: Senior Conservative MP Sir Bob Neill says he's submitted a letter of no confidence in Boris Johnson: "I have listened carefully to the explanations the Prime Minister has given, in Parliament and elsewhere, and, regrettably, do not find his assertions to be credible."
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Following the publication of Sue Gray's report, I have posted the statement below on my website.
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Its not even one rule for them and another for everyone else, its no rules for them and who cares what everyone else thinks....
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After this week, I’m not surprised that the Prime Minister’s response to the Sue Gray report on the culture of rule-breaking in Number 10 is to change the Ministerial code so that Ministers who break the rules don’t need to resign.
Total disgrace.
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In Hungary, a centre-right party came to power, waged culture wars against its opponents, introduced authoritarian legislation, rigged the rules in its favour with the help of a servile media and, anyway, tl;dr, Hungary is no longer a democracy.
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This is the sleepwalking I was talking about.
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He's already ridden roughshod over the ministerial code. Now he's diluting its power to protect us from corrupt & inept ministers. The alternative would have been to *start* following it...
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(Just in case you missed this bit - Boris Johnson is currently under investigation for breaking the ministerial code)
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Latest update on the prime minister's humility and regret.
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I’m really embarrassed to say I never saw this coming. When it was blinding obvious this would be the logical next step. Wow.
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BREAKING: Priti Patel's PPS Paul Holmes has quit from the role over the Sue Gray revelations.
Says there was a "toxic" and "distasteful" culture which permeated Number 10.
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“The person running our country lies, he is reckless and he’s incompetent... our country deserves better and we will not get better until Boris Johnson is gone”
Labour’s calls for the prime minister to resign in the wake of the Sue Grey report. #bbcqt
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NEW: Security guards and cleaners, who work across Whitehall, are planning to protest against the government's "culture of disrespect" towards low paid workers. As referenced in Sue Gray's report. It'll happen tomorrow from 5.30pm outside the gates of Downing Street.
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Johnson’s worst crime was not breaking lockdown laws, but devising them in the first place.
He turned this country into a police state.
NEVER FORGET.
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NEW: This morning two more Conservative MPs - David Simmonds and John Baron - say it's time for Boris Johnson to step down. That's now 18 MPs publicly calling for his resignation (up from 15 before Gray report published).
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A windfall tax announcement a day after the Sue Gray report? 
"We don't control the timing of that" says Downing Street Chief of Staff @SteveBarclay
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"We don't control the timing of that" says Downing Street Chief of Staff @SteveBarclay
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“Humbled”?
He was there.
Boris Johnson is responsible for the appalling Downing Street culture he has created. He’s the Prime Minister.
And he’s spent months lying through his teeth about it to the British people and to Parliament.
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