Boris Accused of Blackmail to Wreck the Plot to Oust Him
For decades, politics-watchers have speculated that Boris Johnson’s ramshackle appearance and oafish manner is all an act. That, underneath it all, he was actually a calculated political operator with a unique ability to charm the public and rise above scandal to cling to power. Over the past few weeks, that theory has been quite spectacularly obliterated.
His latest unprecedented humiliation came Thursday following a plot to get rid of him that was cooked up by his own lawmakers who were outraged over a string of revelations that he attended or hosted boozy parties while the rest of Britain was in lockdown—even Queen Elizabeth, who sat alone at her husband’s funeral hours after one Downing Street bash.
It looked like that plot had been seen off, at least for the time-being. But then a member of the British prime minister’s Conservative Party went public with an extraordinary allegation—that Johnson’s government was blackmailing lawmakers in a potentially illegal attempt to stop them from joining rebels who were trying to oust Johnson from office.
The lawmaker, William Wragg, went so far as to encourage his colleagues to contact the police if they had been subjected to the alleged threats, which Wragg claimed included withholding government money for local projects and leaking damaging stories about rebels to the press.
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Boris Johnson himself threatened to pull funding from backbenchers' constituencies unless they voted 'the right way', MPs have reportedly claimed.
Chris Bryant, the chairman of the Commons Standards Committee says he has been told the Prime Minister was involved in bully-boy tactics used by party whips to stop rebellious MPs ousting him.
He told the BBC he believes such behaviour is illegal.
Labour MP Mr Bryant said he has spoken to "about a dozen" Conservative MPs in recent days who have been threatened by Tory whips either with having funding withdrawn from their constituencies or promised funding if they vote "the right way".
"I have even heard MPs alleging that the Prime Minister himself has been doing this," Mr Bryant said.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-himself-threatened-backbenchers-26019639
