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re: BORIS Sleeze: Champagne Party Night Before Brits Hit by Tax & Bills Bombshell
Tories Brace for Inevitable' Challenge to Boris -FIVE MORE MPs Mull No-Confidence Letters
PM could face £12,000 fine for SIX lockdown-busting parties and anger about Savile 'slur' at Starmer - but he vows to stay
BBC News 3 FEB. 2022
Boris Johnson is still being buffeted by the Partygate storm with warnings that he could face £12,000 in fines if police found to have broken lockdown rules by attending six Downing Street bashes.
The premier has voiced defiance insisting he has a 'lot more to do', will fight the next election and wants to be in power until the end of the decade. However, worryingly for Mr Johnson the Conservative anger at him has been breaking through into open opposition, with three more MPs announcing they have written to 1922 committee chair Sir Graham Brady in just 24 hours.
Sir Gary Streeter, Mr Johnson's 'slur' about Keir Starmer failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile - as he scrambled to distract attention from his own woes - seems to have further infuriated many on his own benches with swipes that he is a 'pound shop Trump'.
It takes the number who have declared sending letters to seven - although the true figure is thought to be several times that as most do not reveal their intentions. Another five MPs, including members of the government, are considering submitting their letters, although it is not known if they will announce doing so.
In a round of interviews this morning, Foreign Office minister James Cleverly insisted the PM is focused on 'delivery' - and suggested Tories should not be staging a revolt when Russia is on the verge of invading Ukraine.
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