BOMBSHELL WARNING TO PM: LIFT LOCKDOWN OR FACE LEADERSHIP THREAT
Boris Johnson’s days in Downing Street are numbered unless he gives a clear path out of lockdown soon, influential Tories have warned.
Powerful backbencher Steve Baker, who was instrumental in the downfall of Theresa May, has privately said “its inevitable the Prime Minister’s leadership will be on the table.”
In an explosive rallying call to fellow members of the lockdown-sceptic Covid Recovery Group, the ex-minister blasts: “people are telling me they are losing faith in our Conservative Party leadership.”
The group represents dozens of Tory backbenchers who a worried about the side effects of long lockdowns.
Mr Baker urges those colleagues to make their concerns directly to Mr Johnson’s Commons enforcer, Chief Whip Mark Spencer.
In a bombshell note to MPs seen by The Sun, Mr Baker writes: “I am sorry to have to say this again and as bluntly as this: it is imperative you equip the Chief Whip today with your opinion that debate will become about the PM’s leadership if the Government does not set out a clear plan for when our full freedoms will be restored, with a guarantee that this strategy will not be used again next winter.”
Downing Street have been approached for comment.
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