Meanwhile, Johnson has vowed to stay in power despite the resignations of those who have cited the PM’s leadership as reason for them to quit and claimed that they could no longer support Johnson due to his handling of ethics scandals, including the appointment of Chris Pincher as deputy chief whip, despite Johnson belatedly admitted to knowing that Pincher was found to have behaved inappropriately in 2019.
In June this year, Johnson had successfully survived a trust vote by winning the backing of 211 out of 359 Conservative lawmakers.
Further, Johnson also has to navigate two public grilling sessions: The weekly Prime Minister’s Questions session in parliament and an interrogation by a committee of senior lawmakers, AP reported.
(With inputs from AP and The Guardian.)
