PM writes to Conservative MPs before facing vote between 6pm and 8pm today into whether he should remain as leader
Rees-Mogg claims remainers behind attempt to oust Johnson and that, without him, Brexit won't be fully delivered. He is one of the cabinet ministers most loyal to Johnson, which critics claim is not wholly unrelated to his status as one of the ministers most likely to be sacked under another Tory leader. Here are some of the main points he made.. “I also think that, without Boris Johnson, Brexit will not be delivered,” he said.
He said that he was wrong in December 2018 when he said that Theresa May should resign after the no-confidence vote which she won, with 63% of Tory MPs backing her and 37% not supporting her.He claimed that Johnson would be able to continue as prime minister even if he won tonight’s vote by just one vote.I don’t think getting to the 15% bar is particularly damaging, or indeed particularly surprising. I think it’s a relatively low bar and fairly easy to get to ...
And Rees-Mogg claimed that the fact that Johnson received “a little bit of booing” when he arrived at St Paul’s Cathedral for the service for the Queen’s platinum jubilee was “perfectly normal”. When Sky News played the clip to him, he accused them of turning up the volume to make it sound worse than it was. He said:
Turning the volume up to get your readers to be too concerned about that – that was a bit miserable really.
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