Boris Johnson: Patel and Shapps join calls for PM to go
BBC News says BORIS JOHNSON is fighting to stay on in No 10 despite his support collapsing in another dramatic day of resignations.
The PM was defiant despite many previously-loyal supporters – including Priti Patel and Grant Shapps – calling for him to step down on Wednesday.
Welsh Secretary Simon Hart became the latest cabinet minister to quit, while Attorney General Suella Braverman launched a leadership challenge.
But the PM insisted he had a “colossal mandate to keep going” from voters.
Taking aim at his critics, the prime minister sacked Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove in a shock move, with a Downing Street source calling him a “snake” who “gleefully briefs the press that he has called for the leader to go”.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62069494
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