The prime minister is facing calls for a new investigation to be launched over allegations of improper behaviour by government lieutenants charged with keeping the party in line.
Party yesterday claims government whips threatened to withhold funding for a new school in his constituency.’s enforcers told him he would lose out on a new high school if he didn’t vote a certain way.
The Hazel Grove MP claimed Downing Street staff, advisers and ministers loyal to Mr Johnson had also been ‘encouraging the publication of stories in the press seeking to embarrass those who they suspect of lacking confidence in the prime minister’. He added: ‘While the whipping system is long-established, it is of course a contempt to obstruct members in the discharge of their duty or to attempt to intimidate a member in their parliamentary conduct by threats.’
Boris Johnson was also told ‘in the name of God, go’ by one his own backbench MPs during an extraordinary Commons appearance
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