Boris Johnson stated that he was concentrating on helping the country just two days after a vote on the prime minister’s leadership by his MPs, in which 41% voted against him.
Two days after winning a vote by his MPs, the prime minister entered the House of Commons to cheers, even though 41% of them had voted to remove him as a leader.
However, the leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, stated that he “couldn’t tell if those opening noises were applause or jeers” and whether they were directed at him or the Prime Minister.
Mr. Johnson asserted that his government will create “high income, highly skilled jobs” for the nation.
He told MPs, “As for jobs, I’m going to focus on mine.”
In a particularly raucous beginning to Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour’s Angela Eagle stated that the vote of no confidence demonstrated how despised the prime minister is “even within his party,” prompting roars from the Labour benches.
Mr. Johnson, however, dismissed this notion, stating, “Of course, I’ve picked up political opponents all over the place in my long political career” because the government has accomplished “great wonderful things.”
Labour MP Afzal Khan used Mr. Johnson’s statements about getting on with the work against him, stating that he would have more sympathy for that argument “if it had begun in the first place” Mr. Johnson smirked and muttered under his breath in response.
Mr. Khan was alluding to lengthy passport processing times, as well as aircraft cancellations and lengthy delays, which he warned might cost families £1 billion.
Mr. Johnson stated that 91 percent of people are receiving their passports within six weeks, that more personnel is being stationed in airports, and that Labour has not denounced the RMT strike that will see more than 40,000 rail workers walk out for three days later this month.
Dorries versus Hunt dispute
During PMQs, Sir Keir focused on the NHS, capitalizing on the blue-on-blue dispute between pro-Johnson Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, who sat next to the Prime Minister on the front bench, and senior Tory and Johnson critic Jeremy Hunt.
During his tenure as health secretary, Ms. Dorries asserts that Mr. Hunt left the nation “unprepared and wanting” for the epidemic.
Sir Keir also cited former minister Jesse Norman’s letter of no confidence to Mr. Johnson, in which he stated that the administration “seems to lack a sense of mission” hours before Monday’s vote.
Nonetheless, many have questioned why Sir Keir did not grasp the opportunity more by focusing most of his questioning on the NHS rather than the vote of confidence.
As he narrated the story of a guy who called 999 six times in an hour because his mother was battling to breathe, he did silence the House of Commons. In the final call, he told the call taker that his mother had been breathing in the first call but had died by the sixth.
It’s merely a flesh wound
Ian Blackford, the Westminster leader for the SNP, was eager to grasp the occasion when he compared the Prime Minister’s reaction to surviving a vote of confidence to a Monty Python figure.
“The prime minister is behaving like the black knight from Monty Python, running around declaring it’s just a flesh wound,” he told MPs.
“And no amount of delusion or denial can save the prime minister from the truth; this story will persist until he leaves office.”
“Once in his lifetime, he must awaken to reality. Mr. Prime Minister, the issue has been resolved. It is complete. The prime minister has no remaining alternatives, while Scotland does.
