THE GUARDIAN:
Former business secretary does not call on PM to resign but says MPs must ‘decide on right course of action’
Leadsom said she believed it was ‘extremely unlikely that senior leaders were unaware of what was going on’ in No 10 while Covid rules were in place. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA
The former cabinet minister
Andrea Leadsom has criticised Boris Johnson’s “failure of leadership” – the latest in a string of senior Tory figures to express doubts about the prime minister’s future.
The former business secretary, who has twice run for the party leadership, stopped short of calling for Johnson to resign but said individual MPs would decide on how best to restore confidence.
In a letter to her constituents, Leadsom said she believed it was “extremely unlikely that senior leaders were unaware of what was going on”.
“I therefore agree with Sue Gray’s conclusions that there have been significant failures of leadership, both political and official, in No 10 and the Cabinet Office,” she wrote.
The MP for South Northamptonshire added: “Each of my Conservative MP colleagues and I must now decide individually on what is the right course of action that will restore confidence in our government.”
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Jessica Elgot, Chief political correspondent | Tuesday, May 31, 2022
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