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Mr Johnson’s allies insist the Prime Minister should have offered his predecessor a public show of support during the House of Commons privileges committee investigation into whether he misled Parliament over rule-breaking in Downing Street during the Covid crisis.Mr Johnson announced his exit on Friday as he directed a scathing attack on the Commons Privileges Committee probe.
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Johnson acolyte who was knighted in his resignation honours, said the former Tory leader could ‘easily get back into Parliament at the next election’, a suggestion which could mean Mr Johnson may be back in Westminster next year. ‘Any attempt to do so would shatter our fragile party unity and plunge the Conservatives into civil war.’
According to The Sunday Times, Mr Johnson was told by Ms Harman that his punishment would be a suspension from the Commons for a time that would ‘significantly exceed’ 10 days, thereby reaching the threshold for a by-election to possibly be triggered. The Tories enjoy a comfortable 20,000 vote cushion against Labour in Mr Adams' former Selby and Ainsty constituency in North Yorkshire.But the governing party's record has been poor in recent years, with the Tories losing four seats in by-elections since June 2021, three of them to the Lib Dems and a fourth to Labour.
Several reports have suggested that Mr Johnson's allies blame Downing Street for Tory MPs, including Ms Dorries, Mr Adams and Cop26 president Sir Alok Sharma, not appearing on the published peerages list on Friday despite them being nominated for the upper chamber.
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