SNP calls on Tory MPs to topple Boris Johnson over Downing Street lockdown parties

Up to five more Tory MPs are considering jumping ship to Labour, according to reports.

Boris Johnson's daughter Romy was hit "quite badly" by Covid-19 but is now "on the mend", it has been reported. Last week, Downing Street had announced that a member of the 57 year old Prime Minister's family had tested positive for the virus, but did not specify who it was.The PM, who shares a stunning home with wife Carrie after a pricey refurbishment, had pulled out of a visit to Lancashire after Downing Street revealed he'd been in close contact a with relative who had coronavirus. At the time, a No10 spokesperson said he would "follow the guidance for vaccinated close contacts, including daily testing and limiting contact with others".

A man facing a £2,000 fine and a date in court for travelling to the Lake District for a walk during lockdown is demanding it be dropped.

New Bury South Labour MP Christian Wakeford, who dramatically defected from the Conservatives today, says his old party are 'trying to defend the indefensible - and they are doing so gladly'.

The Conservative Party lost one of its newest MPs today as Christian Wakeford sensationally announced he was defecting to Labour just moments before Prime Minister's Questions.

Boris Johnson will fight on against any confidence challenge against him and will lead the Tories into the next election, his press officials have declare.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid will be hosting a Downing Street press conference later today.

Christian Wakeford backed a bill that could make by-elections mandatory for MPs who change political party.

Boris Johnson has announced in Parliament today that Plan B rules in England will be scrapped.

Boris Johnson has been told to “in the name of God,go” by one of Conservative party’s most senior MPs.

Bury South MP Christian Wakeford has officially defected to Labour in protest against Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Former Bury South Tory MP Christian Wakeford told Boris Johnson 'both you and the Conservative Party as a whole have shown themselves incapable of offering the leadership and government this country deserves' as he defected to join Labour.

Line of Duty fans have been left in stitches as a viral video of the AC12 gang interrogating Boris Johnson has gone viral.The spoof clip, shared by political campaign group Led By Donkeys, shows Kate Flemming, Steve Arnott and their boss Superintendent Ted Hastings quizzing the Prime Minister on allegations of parties during the lockdown. In the clip, 57 year old Boris can be seen sitting across the table from the AC12 trio as they begin recording the interview.

Boris Johnson has been hit by a devastating Tory defection to Labour just ahead of his appearance at Prime Minister’s Questions

A Scottish Conservative MP has admitted Boris Johnson should be considering his position over the Downing Street partygate scandal.

K.J. Yossman British culture minister Nadine Dorries is set to speak at the 2022 Creative Coalition Festival alongside political opponent Keir Starmer.Dorries, who is the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, will give the welcome address at the festival’s Feb.

Boris Johnson is expected to make an announcement to end some Plan B restrictions next week after MPs were told they can be 'substantially reduced.'

Christian Wakeford has become the latest Tory to submit a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister after a series of Downing Street parties during lockdown.

Boris Johnson will face another grilling from MPs today at Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons.

Martin Compston and the AC-12 team have carried out their biggest interrogation yet - with Boris Johnson in the hot seat.

Line of Duty's crack trio have reunited to grill Boris Johnson in a new spoof episode.

Boris Johnson is expected to announce an easing of England’s coronavirus restrictions tomorrow.

Working class town Heywood helped turn the northern Labour red wall Conservative blue at the last election.

Boris Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings will give evidence to the Sue Gray inquiry into the Downing Street lockdown parties.

Boris Johnson has claimed that he wasn’t informed that a Downing Street garden gathering that’s been alleged to have been party was against COVID rules at the time.The Prime Minister said in a new interview that he “humbly apologises” to people for “misjudgements” that were made, but that he wouldn’t have attended the gathering on May 20, 2020, if he thought it broke the rules.He told Sky News today (January 18): “I’m saying categorically that nobody told me, nobody said this was something that was against the rules, doing something that wasn’t a work event because frankly, I can’t imagine why it would have gone ahead, or it would have been allowed to go ahead if it was against the rules.”"I carry full responsibility for what took place, but nobody said to me that this was an event that is against the rules."Boris Johnson recalls what he remembers about an alleged party in the Downing Street garden during lockdown.Latest: https://t.co/lE3sSg2vbt pic.twitter.com/k50uWKeYmD— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 18, 2022Under the rules that applied at the time of the alleged party, which dozens of Downing Street staff were invited to in an email sent by principal private secretary Martin Reynolds, people in England were subject to “not meeting up with any more than one person from outside your household” [via FullFact].The law in May 2020 said “no person may participate in a gathering in a public place of more than two people” unless it was for one of a number of stated reasons. These included when the gathering was “essential for work purposes” or “all the persons in the gathering are members of the same household”.

Boris Johnson – check it out below.For their latest release, the satirical duo repurposed Rage Against The Machine‘s 1991 protest anthem ‘Killing In The Name’ in response to recent allegations that Downing Street hosted various parties during lockdown.The clip begins with the PM asking the British public to “limit contact with other people” during a coronavirus press conference. “Now you do what I tell you,” Johnson adds over an instrumental of the classic Rage single.“As you comply, I socialise/ With cheese and wine, and forty guys/ From ‘Next slide please’ to wine and cheese/ The rules you see, don’t apply to me,” Johnson says in the style of the original track.

Boris Johnson has denied lying to Parliament over allegations of lockdown rule-breaking parties in Downing Street.

Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said his ambition to lead the Tories has not "completely vanished" as Boris Johnson faces the threat of a challenge.

Dominic Raab has been caught admitting one of the covid lockdown gatherings in Downing Street was "a party" during an interview earlier today.

Ayrshire's MPs and MSPs have called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign in the wake of the Downing Street drinks parties scandal – delivering a humbling 15-0 verdict today.

Boris Johnson must take responsibility for a party at Downing Street during strict lockdown measures in May 2020 and resign, according to West Dunbartonshire’s MP.

Keir Starmer has said he doesn’t care which Tory leader he faces in a general election as he renewed calls for Boris Johnson to quit.

Boris Johnson has reportedly been interviewed as part of the investigation into partygate allegations as claims of another lockdown breach in No 10 surfaced.