Was this the moment #BorisJohnson’s career ended? For many, it couldn’t come soon enough
Laughing at us: Boris Johnson grinned inanely and bobbed about on his bench while MPs attacked his contempt for the rules and denials of guilt.
What an apocalyptic performance.
Prime Minister’s Questions could hardly have gone worse for Boris Johnson. It is hard to tell which moment was more damaging for him.
Was it this, in which senior Tory MP – and himself a former leadership contender – David Davis quoted (among others) Oliver Cromwell?
I was one of many to comment on it…
The @DavidDavisMP intervention changes everything. People have been saying the Tories don't have anyone with whom to replace @BorisJohnson so won't replace him, but this suggests that the grandees don't care and just want him out. #PMQs #PoliticsLive
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) January 19, 2022
Alternatively, was the tipping-point this moment, in which Johnson himself laughed at criticisms of his rule-breaking?
I had something to say about this as well:
It's a sharp contrast to last week's show of contrition, with @BorisJohnson smirking, pulling faces and bobbing about on his bench like a naughty schoolboy. Does he not know how bad it looks when he has been caught rule-breaking – like a naughty schoolboy? #PMQs #PoliticsLive
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) January 19, 2022
And now we’re all waiting to see if Graham Brady, chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee, will come out and say he’s received enough ‘no confidence’ letters to trigger a leadership challenge against Johnson.
After today’s performance it seems that, for many of us – Tories and Opposition alike – that moment can’t come soon enough.
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Let’s hope so, eh? Although if the trend of recent years is followed, he’ll be replaced by someone even more vile and incompetent. We need to be careful what we wish for – Priti Patel anyone? A good candidate to complete the transformation of Britain into an authoritarian, even neo-Fascist state.