UK opposition demands election amid Johnson 'farce'

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LONDON: UK opposition leader Keir Starmer on Sunday (Jun 11) demanded a general election as three MPs from the ruling Conservative Party,

Labour leader Starmer tweeted that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak"must finally find a backbone, call an election, and let the public have their say on 13 years of Tory failure.

As the committee prepares to make public its findings, Johnson said they had contacted him"making it clear ... they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of parliament". "It is very sad to be leaving parliament - at least for now - but above all I am bewildered and appalled that I can be forced out, anti-democratically... with such egregious bias," he said.

Influential Johnson supporter Jacob Rees-Mogg wrote in the Mail on Sunday that said the former Tory leader could"easily get back into parliament at the next election".

 

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