Parallels here with the odious Trump. Both are shameless compulsive liars, both are narcissistic, both lack self-awareness, & both will do anything to cling to power.
Desperate Boris could 'go nuclear' and drag Queen into his shameless battle to remain as PM by asking her for snap General Election - but critics brand move 'deluded madness' that would spark constitutional crisis if Monarch says NO
Boris Johnson's allies have now raised the prospect of taking the 'nuclear option' and asking the Queen to dissolve parliament to trigger an election - which he does technically have the power to do - but the monarch could also refuse the request. Critics have branded the idea 'deluded madness' which would spark a constitutional crisis if the Queen turned down his request, and senior officials and MPs have reportedly warned him against the 'Trumpian' strategy. Concern among MPs comes following the approval of the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act which was brought into law this year, repealing the Fixed-term Parliaments Act and allowing for the body to be dissolved by the Queen 'on the request of the prime minister'. Conservative MPs worry that the Prime Minister could try to use it to save his premiership. A government source said: 'It is something that was talked about but it is completely deluded madness.'
Has there ever been a crazier political panto? With more than 40 resignations and counting, Rishi Sunak's mega-rich wife serving tea and biccies, and one Tory MP branding the PM 'a cockroach in a nuclear apocalypse'... it was a bad day for Boris
Even as Boris Johnson's newly minted Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi was taking to the airwaves to defend him, fellow ministers and aides were typing up their resignation letters. The trickle - ten overnight - was to become a stream, then a flood, with an additional and unprecedented number of members of the government quitting. It was always going to be one of the most bruising and difficult days of his political career. As Boris Johnson seeks to recover from a bruising round of calls for him to resign, Daniel Martin, Policy Editor, charts one of the most extraordinary days Westminster has ever seen.
ANDREW PIERCE: Timed for maximum damage, the Saj & Rishi coup they claim is no such thing (and if you believe that, you'll believe anything!)
ANDREW PIERCE: On Tuesday evening, Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak rocked the Government with their double resignations - and may yet capsize it altogether. Their sudden exit from the Cabinet, just nine minutes apart, shattered Boris Johnson's authority, with Javid's blistering Commons speech today (right) pouring yet more petrol on to the blazing pyre of this administration. Now many are asking: To what extent were these plotters colluding?
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Tim Loughton, Conservative MP for East Worthing and Shoreham, has a novel take on Boris Johnson's firing of Michael Gove.
He tells Sky News that Michael Gove offered Johnson the "metaphorical bottle of whisky and the revolver".
"Well clearly Boris has downed the whisky and turned the revolver on Michael Gove.
"Who would have believed it?"
Michael Gove - the now former Levelling Up secretary - called on Johnson to resign earlier today.
A No 10 source said: "You can't have a snake who is not with you on any of the big arguments who then gleefully tells the press the leader has to go."
The PM is understood to have rung Gove in the last 15 minutes to tell him he was sacked.
Parallels here with the odious Trump. Both are shameless compulsive liars, both are narcissistic, both lack self-awareness, & both will do anything to cling to power.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/starmer-first-case-sinking-ships-121953604.html
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Boris Johnson's allies have now raised the prospect of taking the 'nuclear option' and asking the Queen to dissolve parliament to trigger an election - which he does technically have the power to do - but the monarch could also refuse the request. Critics have branded the idea 'deluded madness' which would spark a constitutional crisis if the Queen turned down his request, and senior officials and MPs have reportedly warned him against the 'Trumpian' strategy. Concern among MPs comes following the approval of the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act which was brought into law this year, repealing the Fixed-term Parliaments Act and allowing for the body to be dissolved by the Queen 'on the request of the prime minister'. Conservative MPs worry that the Prime Minister could try to use it to save his premiership. A government source said: 'It is something that was talked about but it is completely deluded madness.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10989569/Desperate-Boris-nuclear-drag-Queen-shameless-battle-stay-PM.html
Even as Boris Johnson's newly minted Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi was taking to the airwaves to defend him, fellow ministers and aides were typing up their resignation letters. The trickle - ten overnight - was to become a stream, then a flood, with an additional and unprecedented number of members of the government quitting. It was always going to be one of the most bruising and difficult days of his political career. As Boris Johnson seeks to recover from a bruising round of calls for him to resign, Daniel Martin, Policy Editor, charts one of the most extraordinary days Westminster has ever seen.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10989319/Has-crazier-political-panto-bad-day-Boris.html
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ANDREW PIERCE: On Tuesday evening, Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak rocked the Government with their double resignations - and may yet capsize it altogether. Their sudden exit from the Cabinet, just nine minutes apart, shattered Boris Johnson's authority, with Javid's blistering Commons speech today (right) pouring yet more petrol on to the blazing pyre of this administration. Now many are asking: To what extent were these plotters colluding?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10989193/ANDREW-PIERCE-Timed-maximum-damage-Saj-Rishi-coup-claim-no-thing.html
Meanwhile, Suella Braverman. A person without shame.
Feels perfectly able to say on live TV that Boris should go. And is the first to throw her hat in the ring to replace him.
Yet still feels perfectly able to remain in the Cabinet. Quite breathtaking.
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