Lord Wolfson said the “repeated breach of the rules and breaches of criminal law” on Downing Street could not be allowed to be dealt with with “constitutional impunity”. The prominent commercial lawyer and QC – whose role Mr Johnson took on in 2020 when he was appointed to the government – was the first minister to resign over the Partygate scandal, saying it would not be consistent with his duty to the rule of law to remain in the Prime Minister’s government. Labor said his departure raised questions about the position of Justice Minister Dominic Raab, whose position as chancellor gives him a special responsibility to abide by the law. Johnson is also preparing for further fines, with reports suggesting he faces three more sanction warnings than other parties on Downing Street. The police are going to punish the Prime Minister because he attended a retirement party for his former communication manager, Li Cain, according to Daily Telegraph. The November 13 incident “is considered to be the most serious violation of coronavirus regulations among the events attended by the prime minister,” an anonymous source close to the investigation told the newspaper. Meanwhile, Tories’s grievances over the 50 50 fines imposed on Mr Johnson and Chancellor Risi Sunak for attending a No. 10 birthday party that violated the lockdown erupted as two lawmakers called on him Prime Minister to resign. Amber Valley lawmaker Nigel Mills said Johnson’s position was “unfounded” after he became the first incumbent Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to be found by police to have broken the law. “I do not think the prime minister can or should survive by violating the rules he has enforced,” Mills said. “He was fined, I do not think his position is valid.” Voters were “justifiably angry” at the 12 parties and rallies at No. 10 and Whitehall, which are currently under police investigation, he said. “When they followed the strictest rules, the people who made the rules did not have the decency to follow them.” Mr Mills said he would “very soon” send a letter of no confidence to Mr Johnson’s leadership to the chairman of the 1922 Tory Committee, Sir Graham Brady, who must vote if 54 deputies so request. Halifax Courier, meanwhile, said Calder Valley lawmaker Craig Whittaker had told voters at a Facebook poll that both Johnson and Sunak should leave. “Throughout this process, it was not very clear that the prime minister violated any rules until, of course, he was issued a fixed sentence notice this week,” Whittaker said. “My expectation is that he and the chancellor must do the right thing and resign.” Mr Whittaker said he would not send a letter to Sir Graham. However, former Secretary of State Sir Gary Streeter, who has already called for a vote of confidence, told the Independent that his position remained “unchanged” following Mr Johnson’s apology. Another former minister, Caroline Nokes, wrote in a letter to a constituency: “I have already made it very clear that I believe the Prime Minister’s behavior was far below what my constituents have every right to expect. I do not need to write a letter of distrust to the chairman of the Commission of 1922, mine was very old “. In a letter to a constituency sent by North Wiltshire MP James Gray in January and seen by The Independent, the veteran supporter said that if the allegations against Mr Johnson and our senior colleagues were substantiated, “our support for them, without a doubt, it will disappear. “ Today he declined to say if he stayed with the message, saying only that he had “no comment” to make. The roar of resentment among the Tories was reflected in a highly critical article in The Spectator magazine, which is often regarded as a bible for party members and had previously been edited by the prime minister. The article warned that Mr Johnson could not survive as prime minister simply by calling for his post as “war leader” during the Ukraine crisis, as several cabinet ministers suggested in messages of support on Tuesday. A resignation from Mr Sunak would be fatal for his position and he cannot simply call on him to resign because of Partygate. Instead, he said, his future depends on his ability to cope with the country’s cost-of-living crisis. And in a scorching crisis, he said: “So far, he seems to have few ideas. That’s the real threat to his position: that he has a huge majority, but he has little idea what to do with it, and that whatever action he takes pushes Britain into a future of high taxes, high debt and high spending, which many people voted for the Tories to avoid. “If he’s forced to leave, it will be for that reason. ” In a letter announcing his resignation, Lord Wolfson said he had concluded that the “scale, context and nature” of the lockdown violations at No. 10 meant that such conduct would be “incompatible with the rule of law”. to be enacted with constitutional impunity, especially when many in society complied with the rules at great personal cost, and others were fined or prosecuted for similar, and sometimes obviously more trivial, offenses. “ He added that it was the official response to the police findings – which yesterday saw Mr Johnson and Chancellor Risi Sunak apologizing but resisting calls for their resignation – that forced him to leave the government. “It’s not just a matter of what happened on Downing Street or your own behavior,” said Tories’ peer. “It is also, and perhaps more so, the official response to what happened.” He added: “I have come to the conclusion that, in accordance with my ministerial and professional obligations to uphold and uphold the rule of law, I have no choice but to resign.” Although his ministerial rank is lower, the resignation of such a high-profile commercial silk has added importance due to the proposal that the prime minister’s determination to cling to power is considered constitutionally inappropriate among the upper echelons of the legal system. He told Johnson: “Justice can often be a matter of courts and procedure, but the rule of law is something else – a constitutional principle that at its core means that everyone in a state, and indeed the state itself, is subject to the law. », The shadow Labor’s shadow minister, Steve Reed, has said that Lord Wolfson’s resignation raises questions about Mr Raab’s position. “Congratulations to the Minister of Justice, Lord Wolfson, for taking the lead,” said Reed. “But what does this mean for Lord Chancellor Dominic Raab, who is constitutionally in charge of enforcing the law, but instead forgives the breach of the law?”
