Sajid Javid just resigned

[achillestoes]

That’s all.

LIAM FOX just withdrew his support from Johnson. That’s like losing Dobby the Elf.

@Provenceinthesummer

We’ll have to agree to differ.

Kemi, gone.

kemi
another arch remainer!

Badenoch is a woman of huge integrity.

It is a remain exodus

Hardly! Otherwise she might care about democracy.

@Provenceinthesummer

This is democracy. Another Tory leader will take over.

Badenoch is a woman of huge integrity

OMG I cannot believe I just read this.
She is my MP. She has done NOTHING for her constituency. KB only serves herself. Her constituents would highly disagree with your statement about her integrity.

I went out for a while and can't keep up !!!!!

They are going to have to carry him out, bodily, aren't they. 🙄

@ElbowGreaseLightning

She has done a great deal for women and children and for free speech. I like her.

That seems to be Liam Fox's job. Will keep waiting.

I tend to agree with that. It's not great to have fractious MPs with the option of constantly trying to play the numbers.

I thought the proroguing thing was the most worrying element of what Boris has done for similar reasons. In that he was following what happened in Canada a few years ago now, where it was equally a bad thing. It was in some ways probably inevitable that a PM would try this given that it worked in another Westminster system.

My view in both cases is that it should have been absolutely refused, because it undermines the system, but that hasn't seemed to be the decision. I suppose because it was felt that it would be destabilizing in itself, but I think that's a error that would belong to the public rather than being structural.

They are going to have to carry him out, bodily, aren't they.

I’m swaying re whether 1922 can take him out but he got an 80 seat majority, whatever happens it’s depressing

A huge and lengthy campaign and he’s out

Listening to PMQ I think he’s too damaged to go on tbf

It’s a huge mess and everyone has become involved in the outcome

I do too.

People say the same of my constituency MP and also about her ministerial work, but TBH she is no different to the last one.

I agree mangly We are no longer a democracy if this can happen.

Op, you can’t just replace him for another Tory. People didn’t vote for another Tory, they voted for Boris. If the leader were to be a remainer given the one mandate Boris was given about brexit - then it would rightly look like a stinking corrupt stitch up - and it wouldn’t be their first attempt -

Revolution looks one step closer today

Hello neighbour. I agree she is a poor constituency MP and her politics are too hawkish for me.

However I am pleased that she knows what a woman is and is prepared to say it. For what it's worth, the first time I wrote to her on this issue, some years back now, I got a "be kind" email full of captured language, so I value her turnaround on this.

‘People didn’t vote for another Tory, they voted for Boris.’

No, that isn’t how it works.

It’s good to have a good clearout. We might get a proper government focused on the job in hand now.

Give has told Boris to go it seems. So to answer my question from last night, he has gone for the jugular.

Trust me the man on the street if Boris does go, and a remainer is installed or even a feeble brexiteer will see this for what it is - a stitch up!

And let’s hope no leader gets too comfortable for a few weeks as they can be thrown out as soon as the little grey men say so.

Its certainly a very good day for Putin old boy

I'd say so.

Michael Gove has apparently declared he's staying but has privately told Johnson to just go.

If thats true, it doesn't really sound like he has the continuing support of those MPs who say they are staying.

And that makes me think, that their position may yet change if Johnson doesn't go (and the only reason they are currently staying is for their own reasons or to try and save Johnson the embarassment of them going too).

I would watch carefully, because the bigger the number going, the hard it is for Johnson to replace government roles with backbenchers (who seem to dislike him even more) and the more untenible the position for those who do remain in Cabinet.

Also watch for the sharks circling for position in the Next Great Tory Leadership Election. (I do like a good Tory Leadership Election. Its better than a soap opera).

Tory MPs want to keep their seats. Its in their interests to oust Johnson, but not have another election.

No matter how much Johnson says he will spark an election, he's still got to have the support of the party for that....

...the party will save their own necks and jobs first.

Penny Mordaunt is the bookies favourite for next leader.

No matter how much Johnson says he will spark an election, he's still got to have the support of the party for that

I agree everyone is just saving themselves but what form does this take? Do they have to give a consensus in some form