Johnson: Political foes enjoy Boris Johnson’s woes in Parliament – Times of India

London: a defiant British Prime Minister Boris johnson insisted Wednesday that he was moving on with his job, as he faced Parliament For the first time, 41% of MPs from his own party called for him to step down.
Johnson is infuriated after Conservative Party legislators avoided winning a no-confidence vote by a less than expected margin. A total of 148 of Tory’s 359 lawmakers voted against him in Monday’s vote.
Johnson says he plans to focus on bread-and-butter issues such as cleaning up the national health care backlog, tackling crime, lowering the cost of living and creating high-skilled jobs in a country that Huh. The European Union,
“For jobs, I’m going to work with myself,” he told MPs during the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions session in the House of Commons.
But opponents of Johnson’s party say they have left no stone unturned to oust him. He fears Johnson, his reputation tarnished by revelations from government parties that violated COVID-19 rules, will doom the party to defeat in the next national election, which is due by 2024. .
Nevertheless, Conservative lawmakers enthusiastically greeted Johnson during the noisy prime minister’s questions, while opponents enjoyed the prime minister’s problems.
Leader of the Opposition Labor Party Keer starrer Any conservative willing to give Johnson another chance will be disappointed.
“They want him to change, but he can’t,” Starmer said.
Leader of the Scottish National Party Ian Blackford Johnson has been called “a lame duck prime minister presiding over a divided party in a divided state”.
Blackford compared Johnson to the comedy troupe Monty Python’s character Black Knight, who has amputated his limbs in battle, while declaring that “it’s just a flesh wound!”
And labor lawmaker Angela Eagle asked: “If 148 of their own backbenchers don’t trust them, why on earth should the country need it?”
Johnson replied that “in my long political career so far, I have certainly raised political opponents everywhere.”
But he said “absolutely nothing and no one is going to stop us from going ahead and delivering for the British people.”
While Conservative Party rules prohibit another no-confidence vote for 12 months, those rules could be changed by a handful of lawmakers who run a key Conservative committee. Johnson also faces a parliamentary ethics investigation that may conclude that he deliberately misled parliament on “partygate” which is traditionally the crime of resigning.
With opinion polls giving Labor a national edge, Johnson will face more pressure if the Conservatives lose special elections later this month for two parliamentary districts where Tory lawmakers were forced out by a sex scandal .