A Conservative MP floated the idea of a “war cabinet” should Prime Minister Boris Johnson resign or be deposed over breaching his own lockdown rules during the CCP virus pandemic.
The idea, suggested by veteran MP Sir Roger Gale, is to defer a leadership contest so potential successors in the Cabinet wouldn’t take their “eyes off the ball” during the war in Ukraine.
Gale suggested that Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab may lead the Cabinet to “deal with the crisis and get us through to the point when we could then have a proper leadership election.”
It comes as Johnson is expected to apologise in Parliament on Tuesday after he was fined by police for attending a surprise birthday party for him in Number 10 Downing Street in June 2020.
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