Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing fresh calls to quit after his second ethics adviser in less than two years resigned from his post.
Lord Christopher Geidt resigned on Wednesday, a day after telling MPs it was “reasonable” to suggest the prime minister broke the ministerial code by breaching COVID-19 lockdown laws in the so-called “partygate” scandal.
In his resignation letter to Johnson, published on Thursday, he said he had been only credibly clinging onto the role “by a very small margin” over partygate.
But Geidt said he was forced to quit when he was tasked with offering a view on the government’s “intention to consider measures which risk a deliberate and purposeful breach of the ministerial code.”…