Johnson in Parliament: 'The government goes ahead with its work'

  Boris Johnson reiterated today that he wants to resist to ensure that his government "goes ahead" in its work and continues "to implement the program" despite the flurry of resignations provoked within the Tory team by the repercussions of the Pincher scandal.

The premier said this in Wednesday's Question Time in the House of Commons, replying to the harsh attacks of the Labor leader Keir Starmer and other opponents, and turning against Starmer himself the accusations of "lack of integrity".

"The task of a prime minister in the current difficult circumstances is to go forward as I intend to do, having received a colossal popular mandate" in the late 2019 elections, Johnson cut short in the face of new urges to resign.

In a later passage he said that "there is a simple reason why" Labor "want me out" of Downing Street: because "they know that otherwise the government will implement its program" on economic revival and post-Brexit, and the conservatives "they will also win the next political elections".

As for the Pincher case, he returned to express "deep regret" and apologize for the behavior of his former government ally and for the fact that he had remained in the team despite previous reports.

Pressed by the Labor leader to confirm or deny whether he himself defined Pincher as "a groper by nature" playing on his surname ("Pincher by name, pincher by nature"), BoJo nevertheless glossed over saying not "wanting to trivialize" the story.

While he claimed to have ultimately excluded the former deputy minister from the government and the Tory group, entrenching himself for the rest "on the independent investigation" opened in the meantime on him and on the confidentiality it imposes.

Johnson's intervention

STARMER IN JOHNSON, 'ANYONE WOULD ALREADY BE DIMITTED' 

"Anyone should have long since stepped down in his position."

This was stated by the leader of the Labor opposition, Keir Starmer, during the Question Time in the House of Commons addressing the conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

He then attacked the prime minister for promoting "a sexual predator", referring to the recent Pincher case, and then for other scandals such as Partygate.

Starmer spoke of Johnson's "pathetic behavior" as the "ship sinks and the rats flee", recalling the flurry of resignation in the Tory executive and pointing the finger at the "dishonesty" of the entire majority party.

Starmer in an intervention by him made a very crude and detailed reconstruction of the Pincher scandal,

with an explicit description of the harassment that one of the victims reported having suffered by the former deputy chief whip.

To then remember how the affair was handled by the Tory leaders, ignoring the accusations against the former deputy minister and the testimony of those who had come forward to denounce his behavior.

"They are all sitting there as if this were normal," said the Labor leader, referring to the benches occupied by the majority.

He then declared in his final thrust, always targeting all the conservative MPs and in particular those who still support the "liar" Johnson: "In the midst of a crisis, the country deserves no better than puppets of dogs that make yes with the nose behind the windows of the cars? ".

Rishi Sunak

FORMER MINISTER JAVID CHALLENGES BOJO, TOO MUCH IS TOO MUCH

"Too much is too much".

With these words Sajid Javid motivated today in the House of Commons in a devastating speech for Prime Minister Boris Johnson - compared by some to that of Minister Douglas Hurd who preceded the fall of Margaret Thatrcher - his resignation yesterday as Minister of Health after the Pincher scandal.

Javid said he has in the past given the prime minister "the benefit of the doubt" several times over other suspicions of scandal, but is now convinced that the problem is "at the top" and that Johnson "will not change".

He then urged his other Tory colleagues to reflect with heartfelt accents, arguing that the question "is not just personal", but that it has to do with "respect for the rule of law"

on the part of the Conservative Party and with the need for the majority formation to "recover the confidence" of the British people if it is to win the next elections as well.

Previously, two other Conservative MPs, including former pro Brexit minister and former leading candidate David Davies, had made or renewed explicit calls for Johnson to step down in the Question Times.

Invitations, however, rejected by the prime minister, who addressing Davies in particular "thanked him" for his frankness, but insisted that "he could no longer disagree with him" this time.

former pro Brexit minister and former leading candidate David Davies, had advanced or renewed explicit calls for Johnson to step down in the Question Times.

Invitations, however, rejected by the prime minister, who addressing Davies in particular "thanked him" for his frankness, but insisted that "he could no longer disagree with him" this time.

former pro Brexit minister and former leading candidate David Davies, had advanced or renewed explicit calls for Johnson to step down in the Question Times.

Invitations, however, rejected by the prime minister, who addressing Davies in particular "thanked him" for his frankness, but insisted that "he could no longer disagree with him" this time. 

Sajid Javid

CONTINUES THE STILLICIDE OF RESIGNATION FROM THE GOVERNMENT

In the barrage of resignations in the British Conservative government against the leadership of Boris Johnson is also added that of

,

.

In a very harsh letter he said that "the country deserves better" and pointed the finger at the handling of the Pincher scandal and the "poor judgment" shown by the prime minister.

Also

responsible for British prisons, he left his post in protest against Johnson's leadership.

In his resignation letter, he recalled how "values ​​such as integrity, respect and professionalism" were compromised in the various scandals in which the conservative prime minister was involved.

And he underlined: "We can and must do better than this".

At the moment there are 16 figures of various levels of the Johnson executive who have submitted their resignations but the number is certainly destined to increase.

this morning ,

, Deputy Minister responsible so far for the Family and Childhood dossier,

, so far ministrial aide (something less than undersecretary) to Transport.

Yesterday the farewell of two senior ministers (the Chancellor of the Exchequer,

and the owner of Health,

).