A snap poll by YouGov this evening found that 69% of Britons say that Johnson should resign.
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Worse as it was 69% of those who voted Tory in 2019; 54% thought he should go tonight.
In that case it sounds like he should definitely stay. Tory voters are up there with Trump supporters and god botherers for people who should be listened to intently… so the world can then do the exact opposite of whatever they think/say due to the sheer idiocy they clearly display via their actions.
Actually in the report of the poll I read it says 69% overall say he should resign; only 54% of 2019 Conservative voters say this. 18% say he should remain - 33% of 2019 Conservative voters.
Take a look at this opinion piece :
I find it plausible and a reasonable explanation of how Starmer and Labour can navigate the shark infested waters.
I am pleased to say I have no interest in the UK I have been here to long (26 years ) its only the exchange rate that concerns me
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Oddly I am just the opposite. The exchange rate is irrelevant to me as I have virtually no financial stake in the UK but it is the country where I was born and grew up, and as such it will always have a place in my heart.
One of my daughters lives in the UK (and also other relatives and friends) so I don’t get to not care.
Interesting interview with Andy Burnham in today’s paper
He says he is staunchly against any electoral pacts, but in favour of “open political agreement, particularly on big-picture things to do with the constitution”.
If we radically change our systems of power, Burnham says, it will pave the way for big social and economic policies that he has been thinking about during his time as mayor, not least during the pandemic. They include either a universal basic income or the kind of minimum-income guarantee introduced in Spain (whereby the country’s poorest households receive top-ups from the state), good housing as a legal right, the nationalisation of the railways and a huge upgrading of bus travel, and social care delivered on the same terms as treatment from the NHS – ie universal and free. “It’s about guaranteeing every citizen of this country the basics,” he says. “I don’t see how you can have a more equal country without those things.”
Would he like to see the Labour party standing on that kind of platform at the next election?
“I would love it,” he says.
But to state the blindingly obvious, the Labour party leadership’s ideas are nowhere near as ambitious as these. Burnham – who recently said it was “entirely right” for rail workers to go on strike, a very different position from Keir Starmer’s – tends to parry questions that allude to Starmer very carefully.
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And another astonishing costs-of-brexit story…
The British Ports Association… calculates that at least £450m of taxpayers’ money has been spent on these now mostly unwanted new border control facilities.
“The cheapest option would be to demolish it” said Mike Sellers, director of Portsmouth International Port [referring to their only just completed facility].
As of this morning…
Quit
Rishi Sunak , chancellor
Sajid Javid , health secretary
Bim Afolami , Conservative vice-chair
Alex Chalk, solicitor general
Jonathan Gullis , parliamentary private secretary
Saqib Bhatti , parliamentary private secretary
Nicola Richards , parliamentary private secretary
Virginia Crosbie , parliamentary private secretary
Andrew Murrison , trade envoy
Theo Clarke, trade envoy
Silent so far
George Eustice , environment secretary
Grant Shapps , transport secretary
Penny Mordaunt , international trade minister
Staying put
Nadhim Zahawi , chancellor
Steve Barclay, health secretary
Michelle Donelan, education secretary
Dominic Raab , deputy prime minister and justice secretary
Liz Truss , foreign secretary
Priti Patel , home secretary
Michael Gove , housing secretary
Kwasi Kwarteng , business secretary
Thérèse Coffey , work and pensions secretary
Nadine Dorries , culture secretary
Ben Wallace , defence secretary
Chris Heaton-Harris , chief whip
Brandon Lewis , Northern Ireland secretary
Simon Hart , Welsh secretary
Alistair Jack , Scotland secretary
Jacob Rees-Mogg , Brexit opportunities minister
Suella Braverman , attorney general
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she is pulling short odds on replacing de Pfeffle (a bit of a dark horse apparently)
she’s pulling 100/1 odds 
Will Quince, the children’s minister, to add to the list of resignations.
Hmmm… I worked with officials in her department (when it was DfID) and was not impressed - basically they brought pressure, which I guess came ultimately from her, to slant evidence for a report I was working on.
Still - she is probably not as extreme as most other possibilities…
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Quite liked Starmer’s comment that this is a case of the sinking ship deserting the rat.
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Stuart Andrew, housing minister, joins the resigners.
Another big resignation would finish him today, I suspect.
Not clear who though - Raab too stupid (or just bright enough to realise Johnson is the only thing he can tie his career to but too stupid to see that his bet bet is to jump ship), Wallace but he was critical of the resignations last night (though that seems a long time in today’s political environment) and Patel - who, one suspects, also knows she won’t survive if Johnson goes.
That leaves Gove who, it has to be said, has form on stabbing Johnson in the back.
Yes - I think a lot of those staying loyal know they would have no ministerial future without Johnson, so nothing to lose really. But I’m not sure that goes for Gove.
Gove 
that sends a shiver down my spine
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Gove and spine… isn’t that an oxymoron (emphasis intended on moron) 
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