Five Tory supporters said Mr Johnson should resign after he was found to have broken the law by attending a No. 10 birthday party when Covid was banned and fined 50 50. However, that number is expected to rise when lawmakers return to the Commonwealth after the Easter holidays. One of those who urged the Prime Minister to resign was Karen Bradley, a former cabinet minister who had previously stated that she would “wait to see” the outcome of the Metropolitan Police investigation and the investigation of Sue Gray. Ms. Bradley, an ally of former Prime Minister Theresa May, is not considered a traditional Tory rebel. The prime minister confirmed yesterday that he would use a statement from the Commons on Tuesday to “clarify the facts” about what he had said to lawmakers in December regarding the parties, as I revealed on Wednesday. Mr Johnson was accused of misleading parliament when he said all rules were followed at No. 10. “I will have to wait until I come to Parliament, when of course I will set the record in any way I can,” the prime minister told reporters in Kent. Mr Johnson is believed to have taken part in six of the 12 rallies being investigated by police and could face further fines, in addition to the announcement of a fixed 50 50 fine for his June 19, 2020 birthday party in the Cabinet. The prime minister suffered another blow last night when it was revealed that by-elections would be held at the Tory border seat in Wakefield earlier than expected after his lawmaker, Imran Ahmad Khan, resigned after being convicted of sexual assault. The Conservatives won a majority of just over 3,000 in 2019 in the normally secure Labor seat and are expected to be taken over again by Kir Starmer’s party. Following the resignation on Wednesday of Lord Wolfson’s resignation by the Minister of Justice, who said that the “repeated breach of the rules and the breach of criminal law on Downing Street” was inconsistent with his stay in office. Ms Bradley said: “Voters know that I was clear that those who set the rules should not violate them, either intentionally or otherwise. “The public has a right to expect the highest standards of conduct from its leaders.” The chairman of the Committees for the Defense of Communities, Tobias Ellwood, rejected the excuse of some Tories that the war in Ukraine meant it was the wrong time to change prime minister, and said that Vladimir Putin would take advantage of Johnson’s position. “How can a legislator be a transgressor of the law? “It’s not a good show,” he told BBC Radio 4 today. He suggested that Mr Johnson activate a vote of confidence.

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“This is the party’s reputation that all colleagues must defend, and I believe it owes it to the parliamentary party, once the reports and the local elections are over, to allow public opinion to be taken into account, to agree to hold a vote of confidence if “These elections are going badly.” Backbenchers Craig Whittaker, Nigel Mills and Neil Hudson also asked Mr Johnson to resign. Dr Hudson said he could not “defend the undefended”, adding that Mr Johnson would have to “show his policy with Ukraine and outline a timetable and process for a smooth transition to leadership elections the international situation “. . Amid speculation in Westminster that the prime minister was considering firing Richie Sunak from the chancellor, Mr Johnson asked if Sunak could remain in office “for as long as he wanted”. Meanwhile, Simon Hart, the Welsh minister, compared Mr Johnson’s comments about the House party in December to Tony Blair’s allegations of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Mr Hart told Today there was a difference between “misleading and deliberate deception”, adding: “We have heard all this with Tony Blair and the war in Iraq, if you remember, the weapons of mass destruction. And the suggestion was at the time that he had misled parliament. That was the proposal and the argument was everywhere whether it was intentional or accidental. “