1000’s of Tory members are demanding the correct to have a vote on whether or not to reject Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister.
A petition arrange by Conservative peer Lord Cruddas has thus far been signed by greater than 7,000 celebration activists.
Cruddas, who has donated tens of millions of kilos to the Tories, says Johnson is the sufferer of a “coup” by his personal MPs and will stay in workplace.
Writing within the Every day Mail, he mentioned: “The ousting of Boris Johnson as prime minister by a minority of MPs is deeply anti-democratic.
“It defies the need of the nation and the Conservative Get together members who elected him.
“It quantities to a coup. I’m ashamed that this may occur in Britain, the birthplace of recent democracy.
“If that’s what politics has change into, we’re dwelling in a nation I can barely recognise any longer.”
The PM introduced he was standing down earlier this month after dozens of his ministers resigned over his disastrous dealing with of the Chris Pincher affair.
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are presently battling it out to succeed Johnson, with the winner introduced on September 5.
Cruddas added: “I don’t need to see the PM as a candidate within the race to be the subsequent celebration chief. I would like the membership to vote on whether or not we settle for his resignation within the first place.
“If we don’t – and I strongly count on that to be the case – it is going to be revoked and Boris will proceed in No. 10.”
Cruddas, a former Tory celebration treasurer who was made a peer in 2021 by Johnson, mentioned his petition was being blocked by the 1922 committee of backbench Conservatives.
“They are saying the Conservative Get together guidelines forbid a major minister to face within the management contest after resigning,” he mentioned. “However we don’t need him to run once more. We would like his resignation torn up. It’s a very totally different factor.”
Johnson is predicted to stay an MP after he leaves Downing Avenue, however there’s hypothesis that he nonetheless holds ambitions to change into prime minister once more sooner or later.
One ally informed HuffPost UK that he wished to remain within the Commons so he might come again “when his successor fucks it up”. The pal later insisted that was a “joke”.
