Boris stands down as MP with immediate effect

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Just breaking now on BBC.

Same day as Nadine.

2 by elections now.

Interesting times

🤣🤣🎉🎉 Hurrah !

Always on a Friday...so they miss Have I got News for You

Uxbridge must be delighted. Hopefully he's gone for good and isn't going to reappear in another safer Tory seat next year.

Has he done any work as an MP since stepping down as PM? Or has he just been riding out on the gravy train?

Good riddance. I have a feeling that his ego won't let this be the last we see of him though.

After receiving partygate report…

Ha I was just thinking exactly this! The big shit Tory news stories always seem to be on a Friday.

If only he had done this years ago.

Always makes me suspicious in what reports and messages have been found for the covid enquiry. Think the shit will hit the fan so he and Nadine are going before they are pushed.

This could get really interesting - Philip Schofield, who?!!

Because he can make more cash not being an a MP. Nothing gallant just elite save myself as always so predictable it's boring now.

Ha ha yes! I think I will have a thimble of sherry tonight 🍾

To lose 1 MP in 1 day may be regarded as a misfortune but to lose 2 MPs in 1 day is careless.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde

"Boris Johnson said he had received a letter from the committee which is investigating whether he lied to MPs over partygate “making it clear, much to my amazement, that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament”.
He said: “I have today written to my association in Uxbridge and South Ruislip to say that I am stepping down forthwith and triggering an immediate by-election.
“I am very sorry to leave my wonderful constituency. It has been a huge honour to serve them, both as mayor and MP.”

Did they jump or were they pushed?

This could be interesting:

In a rallying call to his followers, Boris Johnson used his resignation statement to deliver a stinging attack on Rishi Sunak’s Government.
“When I left office last year the government was only a handful of points behind in the polls. That gap has now massively widened,” he said.

Is this true? I think the polls were bad when he left

“Just a few years after winning the biggest majority in almost half a century, that majority is now clearly at risk. Our party needs urgently to recapture its sense of momentum and its belief in what this country can do.
“We need to show how we are making the most of Brexit and we need in the next months to be setting out a pro-growth and pro-investment agenda. We need to cut business and personal taxes - and not just as pre-election gimmicks - rather than endlessly putting them up. We must not be afraid to be a properly Conservative government.
“Why have we so passively abandoned the prospect of a Free Trade Deal with the US? Why have we junked measures to help people into housing or to scrap EU directives or to promote animal welfare?
“We need to deliver on the 2019 manifesto, which was endorsed by 14 million people. We should remember that more than 17 million voted for Brexit. “

Anyone know why this may be? I’m assuming because they’ve found something in the covid enquiry and he knows if he didn’t quit as an MP that he’d be sacked?

In Johnson's case definitely jumped before being pushed.

Bet he’s going to start his own party

Yes, about 8 years ago….

My vote is 'jumped before pushed"! He will make a fortune anyway.

He sounds like Trump.

"Boris Johnson accused the Standards Committee, led by Labour’s Harriet Harman but including Tory MPs, of having “still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons”.
“Their purpose from the beginning has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts. This is the very definition of a kangaroo court,” he wrote.
“Most members of the Committee - especially the chair - had already expressed deeply prejudicial remarks about my guilt before they had even seen the evidence. They should have recused themselves.
“In retrospect it was naïve and trusting of me to think that these proceedings could be remotely useful or fair. But I was determined to believe in the system, and in justice, and to vindicate what I knew to be the truth.”

He’ll look to be adopted as the candidate in Nadine’s constituency. Safer seat.

He's lying again.

Hooray!