Amid mounting pressure on Boris Johnson, readers add their voices to calls for him to step down over the Downing Street parties scandal
I read Jonathan Freedland’s article (It’s a scandal that Boris Johnson ever got to No 10 – and shaming that he’s still there, 14 January) with interest and I entirely agree; what indeed will it say about Britain if Boris Johnson is allowed to get away with this? I am hoping that Sue Gray’s inquiry will be sufficiently damning to finally topple this prime minister, because even if he was not in attendance at these parties, they were carried out on his watch. Surely now Conservative ministers and MPs will not allow this to just move on, even after hearing grovelling apologies. It is an indisputable fact that salutary lessons will not be learned, and after a short moment for the necessary sackcloth-and-ashes routine, business will carry on as usual – and this will be outrageous.
Judith A Daniels
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
• Regardless of the hue, regardless of the political affiliations and ideologies, Britain has never been so badly served by a prime minister as it has been by Boris Johnson. What is gut-wrenching is that it has taken so long for the Tories to realise the dead weight they have been promoting to the highest office. As a socialist, of course I had concerns about the Camerons and Mays of this world, but everything was up for discussion/debate, at the very least, when they were in power.
