BORIS Johnson took a ferocious political beating from voters and senior Tory figures yesterday — but vowed to keep going. Allies of the PM were battling to shore up his position after Boris took tw…
He quit with a searing resignation letter at 5.35am — just moments before he was due on TV to try to spin the results.
Lord Howard, who led the party in opposition from 2003 to 2005, told the BBC: “The party and more importantly the country would be better off under new leadership.And speaking to Times Radio, another former Tory party leader, Lord Hague, said members of the Cabinet should “steel themselves” to act. And he dangled slashing taxes for wavering voters and for businesses to “turbo charge” the economy, insisting: “We are the party that believes in cutting taxes.”“That’s fine. That’s quite right. That is the job of politicians, in the end, I have to take that.
No 10 insiders admitted that a reshuffle was on the cards within weeks to rejig the top team and try to stamp authority on Mr Johnson’s leadership.
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