{"id":1541556,"date":"2022-07-06T13:34:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1541556"},"modified":"2022-07-06T13:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T17:34:23","slug":"bojo-drama-boris-johnson-survived-no-confidence-vote-but-now-his-cabinet-could-be-falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bojo-drama-boris-johnson-survived-no-confidence-vote-but-now-his-cabinet-could-be-falling-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"BoJo Drama: Boris Johnson Survived \u2018No Confidence\u2019 Vote, But Now His Cabinet Could Be Falling Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbojo-drama-boris-johnson-survived-no-confidence-vote-but-now-his-cabinet-could-be-falling-apart%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1541556&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a recent \u201cno confidence\u201d vote but now faces a mass exodus of government leaders as he confronts ongoing controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The large-scale departures include more than 30 resignations from the British government since Tuesday, including at least 13 junior ministers and three cabinet members.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a1\ufe0fBBC breaking news \u26a1\ufe0fMichael Gove becomes the 3rd minister to leave the Cabinet. Six more ministers have quit, making a total of 13 junior ministers &#038; 9 PPS have now resigned. \u26a1\ufe0f 6 ministers (incl 2 in Cabinet) undeclared. Plus a Party Vice Cairman &#038; 3 trade envoys. Crikey.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine (@militaryhistori) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/militaryhistori\/status\/1544694015769051136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Member of Parliament Huw Merriman was among the most recent leaders to step down on Wednesday, with his resignation letter being tweeted while he sat in a Liaison Committee meeting with Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvents of the past few days, however, have demonstrated a further failure on the part of the Prime Minister, in terms of judgment, competency and integrity,\u201d Merriman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot continue like this,\u201d he added. \u201cThe current situation is causing inertia in Government and if we allow standards expected of those in public service to fall, we will lose the trust of the public and we will never attract high calibre, trustworthy and hard-working individuals into politics or public service,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My statement on the Prime Minister: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ItT8zUCEgp\">pic.twitter.com\/ItT8zUCEgp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Huw Merriman MP (@HuwMerriman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HuwMerriman\/status\/1544693144645734402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Johnson remained resilient despite calls from those in the Wednesday committee meeting who called for his resignation, though he admitted that the U.K. was \u201cgoing through tough times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re making a point about duty. I look at the issues we face today\u2026 I look at the biggest war in Europe for 80 years, and I cannot see for the life of me how it is responsible to just walk away like that,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/huw-merriman-mp-letter-boris-johnson-resign-liaison-committee-1726986?ito=social_itw_theipaper&#038;utm_medium=Social&#038;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1657121300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the committee.<\/p>\n<p>What has Johnson done to set off the ire of so many in his own government? Part of the battle stretches back to an event dubbed the \u201cPartygate\u201d scandal that led to 126 fines related to breaking COVID rules at a holiday party. The highly-publicized incident portrayed Johnson as leading elites in revelry while others were sacrificing and mourning across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Johnson faced allegations that he lied to cover up being aware of \u201cmultiple allegations of sexual misconduct\u201d against Tory Member of Parliament Chris Pincher before he became the government\u2019s deputy chief whip.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Lord McDonald of Salford, the former head of the Foreign Office, revealed that the prime minister had been informed of an investigation regarding Pincher before Johnson gave him the job. McDonald wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/voters-turning-against-boris-johnson-pollster-says-162622021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> that testified Johnson was briefed on the matter \u201cin person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a recent \u201cno confidence\u201d vote attempt in which opponents had hoped to force Johnson out of office, just 211 of 359 Conservative Members of Parliament voted in his favor for him to remain prime minister. The narrow victory means that Johnson cannot face another \u201cno confidence\u201d vote for 12 months under current British law.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, critics have now resorted to a widescale resignation of government leaders across Parliament and beyond in order to force a change in the situation. Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-62064784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">option<\/a> would be for party leaders to change the one-year rule regarding another \u201cno confidence\u201d vote that could require Johnson to either resign or force a new election.<\/p>\n<p>Despite controversies at home, Johnson has remained a staunch defender of the United States. As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-tries-to-get-boris-johnson-to-trash-the-united-states-they-were-not-expecting-his-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>, when CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper tried to encourage Johnson to bash democracy in America during a recent interview, the prime minister refused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I talk to friends in Canada, the U.K., Australia and elsewhere, people express concern about the United States \u2026 in terms of our ability and our institutions to thrive and continue, after what happened with the election of 2020,\u201d Tapper said. \u201cThey\u2019re worried that democracy is on life support in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you worried at all?\u201d Tapper asked. \u201cDo you look at\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Johnson fired back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not?\u201d Tapper asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to say this to the people of the United States. I\u2019m not,\u201d Johnson responded. \u201cI think that \u2014 I just get back to the \u2014 what I have been trying to say to you throughout this interview. I think that reports of the death of democracy in the United States are grossly, grossly exaggerated. America is a shining city on a hill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe that American democracy is under serious threat, far from it,\u201d Johnson later added. \u201cI continue to believe that America is the greatest global guarantor of democracy and freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a recent \u201cno confidence\u201d vote but now faces a mass exodus of government leaders as he confronts ongoing controversy. The large-scale departures include more than 30 resignations from the British government since Tuesday, including at least 13 junior ministers and three cabinet members. \u26a1\ufe0fBBC breaking news \u26a1\ufe0fMichael Gove &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1541614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1541614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}