Boris Johnson Responds To Calls To Resign During Prime Minister Questions

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has responded to calls for him to resign, after being grilled during Prime Minister’s Questions. 

Starmer also cited the example of a woman called Trisha who followed the rules and as a result wasn’t able to visit her dying mother, and then questioned Johnson as to whether he had the ‘moral authority’ to continue as the leader of the country.

Johnson claimed to ‘understand the pain of everyone who has suffered throughout this pandemic’ and said he viewed it as ‘a great mistake to play politics with this issue’.

He said: 

[…] The public do not want to see confidence in these measures undermined, and we are taking the steps necessary to protect the public.

And above all, roll out the vaccinations, rather than focusing on the events of a year ago, which I think the public will understand.

What we need to focus on today is what we’re doing to roll out vaccinations across this country and to protect the public.

Ian Blackford, the Scottish National Party’s Westminster leader, voiced the opinion that ‘trust in leadership is a matter of life and death’.

The MP stated that Johnson was ‘responsible for losing the trust of the people’ and ‘can no longer lead on the most pressing issue facing these islands’.

He then asked Johnson when MPs could ‘expect his resignation’.

Blackford concluded, ‘It is clear that this Prime Minister intends to desperately cling onto power, and I have nothing left to say to a man who we simply cannot trust’.