A senior UK Conservative MP who accused ministers of intimidating dissenting MPs to secure support for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he’s due to speak to the police. William Wragg, vice-chairman of the 1922 committee—a committee of all backbench Conservative MPs—said on Friday that he will be meeting a detective from the Metropolitan Police in the House of Commons “early next week.” Wragg alleged on Thursday that a number of Conservative MPs who wanted Johnson to resign as prime minister were facing “intimidation” and “blackmail” from ministers—an allegation echoed by Chris Bryant, a labour MP sitting on the chair of the Commons Standards Committee—who alleged on Friday that “about a dozen” Conservatives MPs recently told him they had either been threatened by government whips, and in some cases “the prime minister himself,” with having funding cut from their constituencies or promised funding if they voted “the right way.” But several senior Conservative MPs said …
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