Opposition motion would mean potentially hostile candidate could get job if role is not filled within two months
to speedily replace his ethics adviser by launching an attempt to ensure the role is effectively filled within two months – or a potentially more hostile candidate is installed.
William Wragg, the Tory MP who chairs Pacac, has previously called for Johnson to quit after the Partygate scandal. Labour sources believe Tory MPs will be ordered to vote against the motion and that Downing Street will argue Johnson should not face potential further inquiries while he is still being investigated by the privileges committee over allegedly misleading parliament.
She added that while the “sleaze-ridden” prime minister was being “propped up in office” by Conservative MPs, the proposal would ensure that a cross-party group of MPs was given powers to “step in and monitor this rogue prime minister’s behaviour until a new, genuinely independent adviser is confirmed”.
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