Boris To Fight The Next Election......

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/downing-street-parties-boris-johnson-says-he-intends-to-fight-next-election-as-tory-leader-amid-ongoing-partygate-row-12594651
...there, you've heard it from the horses mouth. I bet Rodders is hoping that it is a porky on this occasion!

[Mozz71]

Best possible news for the Labour Party. The have no chance with a competent Tory leader, but a small chance with Boris in charge.

[ToraToraTora]

Mozz, all the howling comes from those who would vote Tory anyway. I think you'll be surprised at how popular Boris still is.

[ToraToraTora]

wouldn't!

[gulliver1]

11.15 TTT "all the howling comes from those who would vote Tory anway" Correct ! ..PMSL.

[Gromit]

Intends to. Hoping.
Of course he is. It is an aspiration not a pledge or promise. - He could be gone next week.

Boris has surrounded himself with sycophants, and whenever he is feeling any pressure, he wheels them out to brown nose their leader. It is excruciating to watch.

[ToraToraTora]

....especially for you Labour luvvies eh gromit? Must be excruciating knowing that you're going to lose again in 2024, that'll be half a century since real Labour won an election!

[grumpy01]

This is all becoming a bit boring now.

[Gromit]

If Johnson was innocent of misleading Parliament then he would want an investigation as soon as possible. The fact that he is seeking to delay an investigation for as long as possible is a sign of desperation.

The police investigation, and the Sue Grey report have nothing to do with the charge that he lied in Parliament. The Police and Sue Grey have not investigated that, so it makes absolutely no sense to wait for those to be concluded.

What Johnson is doing is running away, hoping that people will get bored of the matter and let him get away with it. Misleading Parliament is a serious charge, not a piddling fine. The ministerial code says he should resign if he is guilty as charged. That is why he wants to delay, delay, delay.
(There was always something fishy about the Sue Grey Report being suppressed at the eleventh hour).

[naomi24]

Good. I hope he does fight the next election.

[grumpy01]

I shan’t be voting for any of them.After 50+years of voting,the promises,the missed opportunities,I have decided enough is enough.

[Hopkirk]

He may want to, but it won't be his decision.

As I have said before. Forget cake, he is toast.

[Hopkirk]

As has been shown several times, the Tory party can be ruthless when the leader is perceived to need changing.

[youngmafbog]

My vote for the Tories gone then.

I will not vote for a blue labour green liberal who has bought the country to its knees through an obsession with net zero. Among other things.

[Peter Pedant]

labbo local elections may 22
just to showw them

my cllr - carmine grimshaw is an angel anyway

[jno]

not really for Boris to decide, is it, any more than Thatcher got to decide when she left. (She said she wanted to "go on and on"; her MPs did not.)

[Gromit]

// Boris Johnson suffered humiliating blows to his authority after MPs backed a formal investigation to look at whether he lied to parliament, and senior party figures made new calls for him to resign.

The prime minister will now be investigated by a Commons committee over claims he misled MPs about lockdown parties – a potential resigning matter under the ministerial code.

The move came after the government tried to delay the inquiry only to make a U-turn hours later amid a backlash.

Speaking during a Commons debate after chaotic scenes in Westminster, the former Brexit minister Steve Baker, an influential figure among Conservatives, said he was appalled by Johnson’s private attitude towards the fine he had received for breaches of Covid rules and said the prime minister “now should be long gone”. //

All very unseemly. The beginning of the end.

[davebro]

As I say on the other thread - Boris should call a GE now. I think it would be surprising how many voters still back him & regard partygate as non-issue.

[Gromit]

Gone by Friday 13th May (if we are lucky).