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Not inevitable that Johnson will go, UK minister says
Johnson has been engulfed in a state of crisis for around three months, with some lawmakers in his own party saying he should quit following lockdown parties held at his residence during the pandemic, and other issues.
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A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (bottom row 3R) attending Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons in London on January 19, 2022. British Conservative MP Christian Wakeford on Wednesday defected to the opposition Labour party, after a slew of lockdown-breaching (AFP/Jessica Taylor)
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ritish Business Minister Kwasi Kwarteng said on Sunday it was not at all inevitable that Boris Johnson would have to stand down, as he gave the prime minister his backing over a recent row about his conduct.
Johnson has been engulfed in a state of crisis for around three months, with some lawmakers in his own party saying he should quit following lockdown parties held at his residence during the pandemic, and other issues.
Charles Walker, a previously loyal senior Conservative lawmaker, told the Observer newspaper it was now "inevitable" that his party would remove Johnson from office.
"I don't see what he's seeing," Kwarteng told Sky News on Sunday.
Earlier on Friday, Conservative Member of Parliament and former schools minister Nick Gibb has called on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign in an opinion piece published in The Telegraph newspaper on Friday.
Gibb, MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, said his constituents are "furious about the double standards" exposed by reports of social gatherings at Downing Street.
A report by senior civil servant Sue Gray found that alcohol-fuelled events had taken place at Johnson's offices and residence when COVID-19 lockdown rules were in force.
Citing the report, Gibb said it was "inaccurate" that Johnson told the House of Commons there was no party.
"To restore trust, we need to change the Prime Minister," he wrote in the op-ed.
