PM says his removal is the one route to a Labour victory, and party must ‘refuse to dance to tune of the media’
Boris Johnson has made a last-ditch plea for support in a confidence vote on Monday evening, telling his MPs that to unseat him would be to “dance to the tune of the media” and plunge thePledging to lead the party into another election, the prime minister told a meeting of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tories that his removal was the one route to a Labour election victory.
Johnson made a vague promise of future tax cuts, saying that he and the chancellor, Rishi Sunak – who arrived at the committee room with the prime minister – would make a speech on the economy next week. “Instead of getting into some hellish, Groundhog Day debate about the merits of belonging to the single market, relitigating questions that we settled two and a half years ago, we can get on, we can deliver and we can unite.”
It later emerged that Johnson, when asked if he regretted attending leaving drinks at No 10 during lockdown, replied: “I’d do it again.”
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