PM Boris Johnson vows to fight on despite resignations and calls to go
Taking aim at his critics, the prime minister sacked Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove in a shock move on Wednesday, with a Downing Street source calling him a "snake" who "gleefully briefs the press that he has called for the leader to go".
Mr Hart said he had "no other option left", adding that colleagues had done their utmost in private and in public "to help you turn the ship around, but it is with sadness that I feel we have passed the point where this is possible". Mr Hancock - who said he would not be running for the leadership - predicted Mr Johnson would not be leader for much longer, "whether that's tomorrow or next week".A standoff between the prime minister and swathes of the Conservative Party, from the cabinet down.He is still there in Downing Street - determined and defiant, his government pockmarked by unfilled ministerial vacancies after a slew of resignations.
And justifying Mr Johnson staying in the role, a No 10 source said: "The prime minister has a mandate from 14 million people to get a job done... If the party wants to stop him they have to take that mandate away." The wave of resignations on Tuesday and Wednesday was triggered by revelations about the prime minister's handling of sexual misconduct allegations against former Deputy Chief Whip Chris Pincher.
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