UK media react to the resignations of Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid, and where that leaves the PM
Boris Johnson is still clinging to office in Downing Street, despite the resignations yesterday of Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, and Sajid Javid, the health secretary. That is a mistake. He has lost the confidence of his party and the country. Just two weeks ago, the Conservatives suffered historic byelection defeats in two previously solid seats. That highlighted the depth of hostility to Mr Johnson in very different parts of the country and prompted the resignation of the party chairman.
There may yet be a way forward for Boris. If he is mortally wounded, however, those challenging to take his crown should remember: only under a government working to true Tory principles – low taxes, free markets and exploiting Brexit to the full – can Britain prosper.Six weeks ago I expressed my fear in these pages that Boris’s ‘idiocies over Partygate symbolise a wider unsuitability for office that can never be corrected’. That – plus his lack of a coherent political plan – remains my view.
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