Angela Rayner has hit out at the Prime Minister's new staffing appointments - describing the move as 'frantically rearranging deckchairs'.
17.01.2022 - 18:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Boris Johnson must take responsibility for a party at Downing Street during strict lockdown measures in May 2020 and resign, according to West Dunbartonshire’s MP.
Last week the PM was forced to apologise to parliament after details of a party that 100 Number 10 staff were invited to were revealed. Details of further lockdown breaching parties at Downing Street, involving Mr Johnson’s wife, Carrie, were also uncovered over the weekend.
Even Gartocharn’s Conservative councillor, Sally Page, has said that she agrees with Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross that Johnson’s time is up.
The PM admitted he had been at the “bring your own booze” bash in the garden of Downing Street on May 20, 2020, when such gatherings were banned under Covid rules.
And furious West Dunbartonshire MP Martin Docherty-Hughes said Johnson must resign, as he highlighted the heartbreaking death toll in the area to parliament.
Speaking in the House of Commons, the SNP member said: “As of last week, across Clydebank, Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven, 300 men and women - my constituents - have died of Covid-19.
“Most were intubated, the vast majority were alone, and many were without access to the burial traditions of our ancestors.
“I ask the Paymaster General whether they agree that if a Tory party in Downing Street took place during a global public health emergency, and if the Prime Minister participated and/or sanctioned it in any shape or form, and if senior members of the British civil service in Whitehall did the same, or were even invited and did nothing to advise against it, that is a fatal blow not only to the Prime Minister’s premiership but to the independence and impartiality of the civil service in Whitehall?”
Apologising to the House of Commons
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Professor Green has taken aim at Prime Minister Boris Johnson with his new single ‘Dance Like A Tory’ – listen below.The London rapper – real name Stephen Manderson – released the satirical song today (January 27) in response to the recent parties scandal that’s engulfed Downing Street and led to calls for Johnson to resign.‘Dance Like A Tory’ is described as “a playful prod at the privileged politicians who believed that they’re too important to follow the very rules that they made”. It arrives with a tongue-in-cheek video in which Pro Green takes on the role of Johnson at a coronavirus press conference.“It’s popping off on Downing Street / My favourite restaurant just closed down / The doors to 338 are closed / While Number 10 gets down,” Green raps in the single.
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The SNP has made a fresh call on Boris Johnson to resign after the latest revelations in the partygate scandal allege the Prime Minister held a lockdown-breaking birthday bash in 2020.
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Boris Johnson – check it out below.For their latest release, the satirical duo repurposed Rage Against The Machine‘s 1991 protest anthem ‘Killing In The Name’ in response to recent allegations that Downing Street hosted various parties during lockdown.The clip begins with the PM asking the British public to “limit contact with other people” during a coronavirus press conference. “Now you do what I tell you,” Johnson adds over an instrumental of the classic Rage single.“As you comply, I socialise/ With cheese and wine, and forty guys/ From ‘Next slide please’ to wine and cheese/ The rules you see, don’t apply to me,” Johnson says in the style of the original track.