Jesse Norman makes the case against Boris Johnson’s ‘grotesque’ leadership – The National

Jesse Norman makes the case against Boris Johnson’s ‘grotesque’ leadership – The National

Boris Johnson faced an outburst of distilled anger from once loyal ally Jesse Norman in the hours before a leadership vote was announced, as the MP and writer said on Monday that he could no longer support the prime minister.

The former Treasury minister listed a catalogue of reasons to abandon the support he had given Mr Johnson since 2007, citing the Sue Gray report into the PartyGate crisis and describing the prime minister's reaction to its findings as "grotesque".

The government's efforts to revise the Brexit Northern Irish Protocol would be “economically very damaging, politically foolhardy and almost certainly illegal,” he added.