A vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s leadership is “inevitable,” a senior British Conservative lawmaker has said as the political crisis over the “partygate” scandal deepens further. Johnson is facing calls to resign, from both opposition parties and his own MPs, following a series of damaging allegations of parties and other gatherings held in his official residence at Number 10 Downing Street and other government departments in Whitehall at the height of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, in violation of lockdown rules written by the government. Tobias Ellwood, a Conservative former minister who now chairs the Defence Committee of the House of Commons, said on Feb. 2 that he has lost confidence in the prime minister and would submit a letter to the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee of backbench MPs. A vote of confidence will be triggered once the committee receives 54 letters from MPs …
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