Sky News’s deputy political editor, Sam Coates, has tweeted another screenshot of the now infamous Tory MP WhatsApp group.

However, his own MPs feared he was also losing the support of many first-time Tory voters in the “red wall” for failing to deliver on levelling up, despite it being a flagship election pledge, along with a string of other promises. The prime minister, who has pledged to step aside, said he will not introduce “major changes of direction” including tax decisions over the coming weeks as Tory MPs and party members run an election for his replacement.Speaking outside the Spectator summer party, he told journalists: “No, I’m not going to stand, but I care deeply that it’s somebody who will deliver for people, and will really make sure that the Conservative party is there to get through difficult times. Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire Andrew Bridgen said he has spoken to Sir Graham Brady and urged him to shorten the process to replace Boris Johnson. Asked if this meant Johnson would not be spotted for the next week, the spokesman said: “In line with the guidance, which is to limit close contact as much as possible and to work from home as much as possible, you wouldn’t expect the prime minister to go outside of that guidance.

Theresa May, speaking after Mr Ellwood’s intervention, said: “If people see us making rules for them and acting as if they are not for us that trust that I spoke about between the public and Parliament is undermined. He could once again cause trouble for his nemesis, Rishi Sunak, from the safety of the comment pages, building allies in the press and staying relevant to his cheerleaders at the same time. Robert Courts, the aviation minister, told Newsnight: “Because of the challenges the country has, because we’re still pulling out of the pandemic and cost of living issues, I think we need someone who has experience and someone able to campaign and deliver. But to what extent can it remain a proper UK party if its UK leader is unacceptable to the party in Scotland (where Boris Johnson is hugely unpopular, and where backing him would be even more toxic for a Conservative politician than in England)?

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he said: “I am putting together a broad coalition of colleagues that will bring new energy and ideas to government and, finally, to bridge the Brexit divide that has dominated our recent history. She had previously hit out at the “plotters” seeking the undermine the current Prime Minister, comparing their “scheming” to the factions that brought down Mr Johnson. All this has taken place against a soundtrack of an anti-Boris Johnson demonstrator blaring out 'bye bye Boris' to the tune of the similarly titled Bay City Rollers hit, occasionally drowned out by the strains of a marching band practicing in nearby Horse Guards Parade and a helicopter overhead. Biden may want to take pause, however, as Johnson's undoing could have less in common with Trump's political disposition than with his own. Some cabinet ministers later tweeted their qualified support for the prime minister – though the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, was noticeable by his silence and absence from the frontbench as Johnson offered his account during prime minister’s questions.

The balance has tipped now in favour of saying that the prime minister - it pains me to say it - but it's time to go. Fellow Uxbridge resident Mark Lewis, who compares Johnson to “an ostrich burying his head in the sand”, agrees his time as an MP could be up. Cavendish adds: "He can try in the next few days to bring new people in and there's always bound to be somebody but he is going to run out of road. For those who can't get enough of robust debate, BBC Question Time will be live tonight from Barnsley. Michael Gove is a senior and long-standing figure in the Conservative Party and has served in a strong of high-level posts, from his 2010 appointment as Education Secretary onwards.Former education secretary Justine Greening told Newsnight she believes Johnson should stand down immediately. A former minister, who is backing the former chancellor Rishi Sunak, said he believed it was highly unlikely Johnson would run. Matt Hancock - the former health secretary - says "it's clear" Prime Minister Boris Johnson needs to resign.

He made clear the government would not seek to implement new policies or make major changes of direction, rather it would focus on delivering the agenda on which the government was elected. He argued the hikes were necessary to damp down soaring inflation, and accused Truss, who has promised immediate tax cuts, of peddling “something-for-nothing economics. Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice says recent polling indicates the events of the last 48 hours have negatively impacted the public's willingness to vote for the Conservative Party. They have had to withstand a campaign of threats, intimidation, and harassment designed to challenge the legitimacy of the inquiry, to drive them off the Committee and thereby frustrate the intention of the House that this inquiry should be carried out. As colleagues are saying to one another and off the record, I sadly think that the prime minister’s position is untenable.He added that the ex-PM, who struck up a close friendship with Ukraine’s leader Volodomyr Zelensky during his time in office, was the first global figure to “so strongly come out in support of the Ukrainian people”. Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister is over, and that means so is his tenure living in 10 Downing Street.