David Davis just told Boris Johnson ‘In the name of God, go!’

There was a twist in the tail of today’s PMQs, where along with the relentless and hilarious mockery of Boris Johnson from the opposition benches, there was also a call for him to resign from a familiar face on the PM’s own side.

It was Tory grandee David Davis (you remember) and it was quite the dramatic moment.

“You have sat there too long for all the good you have done, in the name of God go” Tory MP David Davis says

“I don’t know what he’s talking about” Boris Johnson replies “I take full responsibility for everything done throughout the pandemic”
#PMQs https://t.co/IHMfPqD9OJ pic.twitter.com/VnfZ8ZCK4V

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 19, 2022

It prompted a huge amount of comment as you would imagine.

And we’ve read it all – well, quite a lot of it – so you don’t have to, and here are our favourite responses.

Imagine being so shit you lose the confidence of David Davispic.twitter.com/9itck8sKOL

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) January 19, 2022

David Davis meet me at the Red Lion. Drinks on me. #PMQs

— Ken Clarke (@MrKennethClarke) January 19, 2022

omfg, David Davis using his question to tell Boris to fuck off! This is the best PMQs ever

— Rhys Morgan (@rhysmorgan) January 19, 2022

The David Davis question was the PMQs equivalent of a reward for people who sit through the credits of a Marvel film.

— Scott Reid (@ascottreid) January 19, 2022

Looks like he just did. #PMQs #daviddavis pic.twitter.com/VcKOQ5U7Sz

— JOHN NICOLSON M.P. (@MrJohnNicolson) January 19, 2022

Whips briefing that David Davis had just sunk a can of Relentless and wasn't himself.#PMQs

— THE SECRET TORY (@secrettory12) January 19, 2022

I’m extremely impressed with David Davis. I honestly didn’t expect him to know who the PM is.

— Recreational Dentist (@pbAstronaut) January 19, 2022

so far today multiple Tories have sent in letters calling for his resignation, an MP has defected to Labour and David Davis has compared him to Neville Chamberlain saying "in the name of God go"

and these are the people that like Boris Johnson

— dave (@davemacladd) January 19, 2022

It’s actually David Davis quoting Leo Amery quoting Oliver Cromwell. I hope we can keep this chain going.

— Chris Cook (@xtophercook) January 19, 2022

10.

David Davis in particular https://t.co/btTVTSP1oY

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) January 19, 2022

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Quick reminder that Johnson is a biographer of Churchill. So either he conducted his biographical duties so badly he really doesn’t know the quote, or he was even lying then, by pretending he did not know of it.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) January 19, 2022

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Once again, the great question of our time: Liar or idiot.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) January 19, 2022

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In fairness, in that same book he also wasn’t familiar with the fact that the Germans didn’t take Stalingrad https://t.co/QOnunZxnwj

— Marina Hyde (@MarinaHyde) January 19, 2022

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Boris Johnson says "I have no idea what quotation he's alluding to" when David Davis quotes Leo Amery's famous "in the name of God, go" in calling for PM to resign.

But he also claims in the bibliography of his Churchill bio to have read two volumes of Leo Amery's diaries pic.twitter.com/Mj6bNlS5Al

— Poppy Wood (@poppyeh) January 19, 2022