British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Picture: POOL VIA REUTERS/OLGA AKMENPrime minister Boris Johnson faces a threat to his leadership from rebels in his Conservative Party who are demanding a clear path out of the UK’s economically damaging lockdown.
“Government has adopted a strategy devoid of any commitment to liberty without any clarification about when our most basic freedoms will be restored and with no guarantee that they will never be taken away again,” Baker wrote. “If we continue forward with a strategy that hammers freedom, hammers the private sector, hammers small business owners and hammers the poor, inevitably the prime minister’s leadership will be on the table.
Previously leader of a pro-Brexit group of MPs who put pressure on successive prime ministers over the UK’s divorce from the EU, Baker is now concerned about the impact of the government’s pandemic strategy on the economy and individual liberty.He is one of 55 Tories who voted against Johnson’s pandemic plan for a tougher system of tiered restrictions organised by regions in December.
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