‘No pacts, no deals’ to defeat Tories in Boris Johnson’s vacant seat, Lib Dem leader says

The byelections were triggered by the surprise resignations which have created a headache for British prime minister Rishi Sunak, whose party trails behind Keir Starmer’s Labour by about 16 per cent in national voting intention polls.

Mr Davey said the upheaval in the Conservative Party signalled that there should be a general election, four years after Mr Johnson had won a large majority in 2019 but nine months on from his resignation as prime minister, to be replaced first by Liz Truss and ultimately by Mr Sunak. Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, told BBC radio that Mr Johnson had shown “no respect for the British public”, going on to criticise his resignation honours, a privilege of departing prime ministers exercised yesterday by Mr Johnson to provide a number of key allies with peerages and knighthoods.

Will Walden, a former spokesman for Boris Johnson, said his former boss had “seen the writing on the wall” that he could be ousted in a potential byelection triggered by the Privileges Committee’s sanction.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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