Labour pushes Sunak to call snap election after MP resignations, including Boris Johnson

UK PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak has been urged to call a snap general election after three quick-fire MP resignations left him facing by-election battles on multiple fronts.

An ally of Boris Johnson, he followed the former prime minister and former culture secretary Nadine Dorries in departing the green benches. In his lengthy statement, Johnson appeared to keep the door open for a return to the parliament, saying he was leaving “for now”. Johnson’s decision to step down came ahead of the publication of the Privileges Committee report into whether he lied to the Commons when he said No 10 had followed social distancing rules during the pandemic.

The Liberal Democrats have briefed that they could potentially pull off an upset in Dorries’ former Mid Bedfordshire constituency despite a Tory majority of 24,000. Meanwhile, Labour’s Starmer, in an article for the Sunday Mirror, accused Sunak of accepting a resignation honours list from Johnson that he said had seen Sunak “agree to hand gongs to a cast list of cronies”.

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