In detrimental comments to The Telegraph, Sir Bob, a senior lawyer and chairman of the select justice committee, said that “as a lawyer” he had “listened carefully to the explanations the prime minister has given” about the Downing Street parties during the Covid confinements.
“I am sorry, but I do not find credible his claims that no rule has been breached or that he is unaware of the breaches. I cannot accept that he was not aware of much of what was going on.
“It’s in the national interest for the Conservatives to win the next election, but it requires a change of leader for us to do so.”
The news came as a new poll prediction that Mr. Johnson would lose almost every seat on the battlefield, including his own, if general elections were held tomorrow.
The YouGov poll predicts that the Conservatives will leave all but three of the 54 seats they took from Labor three years ago in a reversal of the 2019 Red Wall defeat.
All the constituencies they won in the north of England would return to Sir Keir Starmer’s party, with only one trio in the Midlands remaining blue.
In addition, the Conservatives would give up 34 more “battlefield” seats that they won by a margin of 15 points or less in the last election.
Deputies called for Mr Johnson to quit smoking in a frantic six-hour period, starting at lunchtime with Eastmes MP Holmes, criticizing the “toxic culture that seemed to have permeated the number 10.”
Shortly after Sir Bob made his intentions known, Ms Kearns, the Conservative MP for Rutland and Melton, confirmed that she had sent a letter of censure in January.
He said: “The government only serves with the confidence of its people. This long-standing issue has discredited our government and my party. my confidence “.