Latest updates: former minister says she agrees with Sue Gray report that is was ‘extremely unlikely senior leaders were unaware of what was going on’
Former foreign secretary William Hague said the prime minister is “in real trouble” and that Tory MPs are “moving towards having a ballot” on his leadership.
Allies of Johnson had been hopeful he had escaped unscathed following a relatively muted initial response to Gray’s report last week, PA News reports, but Lord Hague said it is proving to be “one of those sort of slow-fuse explosions in politics”.
It’s still going along. A lot of people misread it really, the events of last week as meaning the trouble is over, Boris is free and that’s actually not the mood in the Conservative Party, which is very, very troubled about the contents of that report.
So I think the Conservative Party will need to resolve this one way or another, obviously because to be an effective party they either need to rally behind the Prime Minister they’ve got, or they need to decide to force him out.
There is a real jitteriness around the parliamentary party of following a Prime Minister who isn’t really setting out a clear plan on necessarily where he wants to lead the country.
We have been here before with Theresa May. The reality is all prime ministers either have to get a grip or get out. That is a political rule that even Boris Johnson will need to follow.
