Boris Johnson Faces Revolt Over Forcing Through Covid Measures

September 27, 2020 by admin

Boris Johnson faces revolt over forcing through Covid measures

Amendment calling for votes on new restrictions is winning cross-party support

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Boris Johnson is facing a massive parliamentary revolt over the way he is imposing Covid-19 restrictions on the British people without first consulting MPs – amid new signs that confidence in his leadership is collapsing in the Conservative party and across the country.

An extraordinary cross-party backlash against Johnson’s “rule by diktat” from Downing Street was taking shape on Saturday – ahead of a key vote on Wednesday – as a new poll by Opinium for the Observer showed Labour has overtaken the Tories for the first time since Keir Starmer became leader in April.

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