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Another sign of unhappiness in the ranks of the Conservative Party in parliament was shown this morning on one of the regional politics programs on BBC One.
Speaking to Politics Midlands, Mark Garnier, The MP for Wyre Forest in Worcestershire said: “[The apology] it was a start. I think one of the things for someone like me is that this is not the first apology that we’ve had. We apologize for the Owen Paterson issue, we’re still waiting to hear more about ‘wallpapergate’. It’s frustrating as a Conservative MP to have to be on the defensive all the time.”
The president of the local Garnier Conservative Association is the latest local official in a safe seat to have called for Johnson’s resignation. “Whether you interpret the events of May 2020 as a work event or a party, there are too many people there, it was against the rules, Boris Johnson knew he had broken the rules,” they said.
Garnier, a minister in Theresa May’s government, said he has not sent a letter of censure, but added he thinks Johnson’s departure is likely: “We are on a bit of a slope towards that.”
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Finally, Starmer is asked if his lead in the polls is due to the Johnson crisis and not the Labor Party’s reversal of fortunes.
“It’s a combination. Whenever we are behind in the polls, everyone says it is the Labor Party’s fault. Now that we are ahead in the polls, I am not going to deny that the prime minister is in a mess of his own making.
“We have a new team in place, we have been there with strong policies. Yesterday, I was announcing our plan for the NHS on mental health; while the prime minister wavers, we are out there with strong proposals for the country. I hope that now we have the opportunity to be heard and that we take advantage of it.”
That’s the end of the Sunday morning national politics shows on the United Kingdom.
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Labor leader denies violating lockdown rules after photo emerges
The Labor leader is then asked if he has broken any Covid rules, Raworth references a photograph on the front page of the Daily Mail over the weekend showing him drinking and eating with others in a building during the Covid lockdowns in April. of 2021.
Starmer He replies that he hasn’t. “I was in an electoral office days before an election. We were working in the office and we stopped for something to eat and then we continued working. There was no party, there was no breaking the rules. There is absolutely no comparison to the prime minister.
“We had stopped for takeout while working at the office. This was a few days before the May elections. We were very busy, we had been on Zoom calls all day, member calls in the office.”
He adds: “It shows how far conservatives who are trying to pretend there is any comparison between industrial-scale parties and this are sinking.
“People will look at the photos and make their own decisions.”
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Starmer: ‘Johnson has demoted the position of prime minister and has lost authority’
Raworth asks him what he will do if Johnson does not resign.
Starmer He says: “I have always resisted asking him to resign. But the prime minister has demoted the position of prime minister and has lost all authority, not only in his own party but in the country.
“When you try to persuade the public on how to behave in the rest of the pandemic, they won’t take you seriously.”
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Starmer says Sue Gray’s report is a fact-finding mission and will not rule on whether Johnson he broke covid restrictions nor does he say he broke the law.
Raworth asks him if he finds out that he didn’t break the rules, would he retract the comments asking him to resign?
“It is clear in my own mind that he has broken the rules, broken the law. He has apologized and he has apologized to the Queen. I am not disparaging Sue Gray, I know her, she is a woman of great integrity and respect.
“If you look at his mandate, it is to establish the facts. She will say ‘this is what happened, this is when it happened, this is what was there’. I think it is extremely unlikely to say that the prime minister committed a criminal offence.”
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The BBC has just reported that Novak Djokovic is heading to the airport to catch a plane back to Dubai.
And the Australian journalist Paul Sakkal assures that the tennis player will leave at 10:30 p.m. local time:
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Starmer: ‘Johnson broke the law for the parties’
labor leader Keir Starmer now it’s up.
He begins by saying that the prime minister broke the law by attending at least one of the parties.
“I think he broke the law. It’s as good as admitting he broke the law. Downing Street has now apologized to the Queen for some of the parties that have taken place.
“I think it’s pretty clear what’s going on. There were parties on an industrial scale, not much is denied. The facts speak for themselves. The prime minister broke the law and then lied about it.”
He added: “The first time I questioned the prime minister about it, he said: ‘I have been assured that there were no parties.’
“Then the Allegra Stratton video came out and I challenged him again and he said ‘I’m furious.’ I just found out about these parties. I’m furious.
“Then it transpired that last week he was at one of the parties and his third defense is ‘I was there but didn’t realize it was a party.'”
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Below he is asked if there will be more reveals about other parties.
“As far as I know and the government knows, this is it.
“This is why we set up this Sue Gray process, because if more allegations come up, they all have to come to light, he is allowing everyone to bring any other concerns they have, Sue Gray will get to the bottom of these concerns. ”.
He said that Johnson is responsible for the culture in Downing Street.
“The prime minister is responsible for it, and they saw in his statement to parliament that he was taking responsibility. You see him again in his response to Sue Gray’s report, he will take responsibility.”
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Oliver Dowden says the culture in Downing Street needs to be changed and understands the anger people are feeling.
Repeat the ongoing process with the Sue Gray investigation, and that boris johnson he will make a statement to parliament afterwards.
He said: “We were dealing with this unprecedented pandemic, working on plans for the vaccine launch, which meant we had the fastest vaccine launch in Europe, twice.
“It allowed us to have one of the most open economies in Europe and bring the economy back to where it was before the pandemic. That’s where our focus was.”
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Oliver Dowden is being interviewed by Sophie Raworth on BBC One’s Sunday Morning programme.
Below He said he didn’t notice a party atmosphere on May 20, moments after giving a news conference to the nation about Covid restrictions. People must have been arriving when he left, adds Raworth.
“I didn’t see people going in or out. That is why it is important that there is a full investigation, and that is why it has been established.
“This event was totally wrong. It shouldn’t have happened. The prime minister has rightly apologized. People feel angry about what has been going on in Downing Street.”
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George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism