UK PM Boris Johnson Faces More Pressure To Resign Over Downing Street Parties Scandal

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson continues to face increasing pressure to resign in the wake of the Downing Street parties scandal; where the leader held a party for colleagues during the height of the 2020 COVID lockdown.

A member of johnson’s own Conservative Party, Christian Wakeford has defected to the Labour Party in anger over the scandal and a former minister in the House Of Commons told Johnson: ‘In the Name of God, Go.’

The embattled prime minister has vowed to fight on, despite alleged reports that at least 30 Conservative MP’s writing letters of no-confidence the leader, with 54 required to trigger a vote of no-confidence which could see Boris Johnson removed from the UK’s highest office.