Ex-Minister Nick Gibb Joins Wave Of Tories Calling For Boris Johnson To Go

A long-serving former minister has joined the chorus of Conservative MPs calling for Boris Johnson to quit as he said the prime minister’s honesty.

Writing in The Telegraph, Nick Gibb said: “To restore trust, we need to change the prime minister.”

Gibb, an ex-schools minister who served under three prime ministers, has also submitted a letter of no confidence to the chairman of the backbench Tory 1922 committee.

The MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton said his constituents were “furious about the double standards” and he said the prime minister had been “inaccurate” in statements to the Commons.

Gibb said: “The prime minister accepted the resignation of Allegra Stratton for joking about a Christmas party that she hadn’t attended, but he won’t take responsibility for those that he did attend. I am sorry to say that it is hard to see how it can be the case that the prime minister told the truth.”

He said there was still support for the prime minister in his constituency, but that voters were also questioning whether they could trust Johnson.

Gibb’s intervention brings the total number of MPs who have publicly called for Johnson to go to 12, but privately the number is likely to be higher.

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