Johnson confronts requests to resign following paying police fine for rules-violation party

4/14/2022 4:47:02 AM

(MENAFN) A deputy became the first member of the dominant Conservative Party to urge British Premier Boris Johnson to leave when he got a fine by Police for joining a group which violates lockdown.

Nigel Mills, a backbench MP, updated local newspapers: “I think for a prime Minister in office to be given a fine and accept it and pay it for breaking the laws that he introduced ... is just an impossible position.”

Mills went on "I don't think the PM (prime minister) can survive or should survive breaking the rules he put in place.”

Moreover, Lord David Wolfson, a justice minister in Johnson’s Cabinet, resigned today due to the violations of COVID-19 rules in Downing Street.

Lord Wolfson in an open letter to Johnson, he said: "I regret that recent disclosures lead to the inevitable conclusion that there was repeated rule-breaking, and breaches of the criminal law, in Downing Street.

"I have - again, with considerable regret - come to the conclusion that the scale, context and nature of those breaches mean that it would be inconsistent with the rule of law for that conduct to pass with constitutional impunity."

He finished: "I am very sorry that the sky has prematurely fallen in on my current ministerial career, but I have concluded that, consistently with both my ministerial and professional obligations to support and uphold the rule of law, I have no option other than to tender my resignation."

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