British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday that his “golden rule” is to “focus on what we are going” as he continued trying to steer questions away from fresh doubts about his premiership sparked by a double by-election defeat.
He also told reporters the day prior that he was “thinking actively” about a third term in office, which would be into the mid-2030s.
After the Conservative Party suffered two election losses on Thursday, party chair Oliver Dowden resigned over the outcome, saying “somebody must take responsibility.”
It was also suggested that rebels in the 1922 committee of Conservative backbenchers could be plotting to force Johnson out by pushing a second no-confidence vote. But Johnson on Saturday said the rebels should let go of the fixation on what he was “meant to have stuffed up.”…