Tory MP accuses BBC of ‘coup try’ on Boris Johnson for reporting on No 10 events

A Conservative MP has been criticised after claiming the BBC had launched a “coup try” in opposition to Boris Johnson.

Michael Fabricant hit out on the public broadcaster after listening to a information bulletin that includes criticism of the prime minister over lockdown events at Downing Road.

One ex-Tory MP stated his claims of a coup have been “laughable” and “harmful” whereas opposition figures accused him of being “upset” at listening to information.

The yellow-haired Conservative MP for Lichfield stated on Saturday: “BBC Radio 4 Bulletin leads this morning with a manufactured story of what some MPs have stated to the BBC.

“This isn’t information reporting an occasion. This relentless information creation is a coup try in opposition to the prime minister.”

Layla Moran, a prime Liberal Democrats MP, stated: “Folks died alone while No 10 partied it up, it is a reality. But, Tory MPs appear extra upset with the reality popping out than they do with this limitless tide of rule-breaking events.

“If Michael Fabricant would not like these tales dominating the media, then he ought to submit his letter of no confidence and inform Boris Johnson to resign.”

And Lord Barwell, who served as Theresa Could’s Downing Road chief of workers, stated of Mr Fabricant’s feedback: “If it wasn’t so harmful it could be laughable.”

Rejecting warnings from different MPs that their electronic mail inboxes have been stuffed with criticism of Mr Johnson, Mr Fabricant stated he had solely “had 31 an identical emails from completely different folks calling for Boris to resign” and “about 20 extra from constituents with the identical name however in their very own phrases”. This was “far fewer than most campaigns” who wrote to their representatives, he stated.

Polls of most of the people counsel the prime minister is extra unpopular than ever earlier than, together with his social gathering not less than 10 factors behind within the polls.

A lot of different Conservative MPs, together with the chief of the Scottish Tories, have known as on Mr Johnson to step down following successive revelations concerning the social gathering tradition at No.10 throughout the peak of the coronavirus lockdown.

Tory backbencher Andrew Bridgen on Saturday morning stated the prime minister has “misplaced the ethical authority to guide” after presiding over a tradition in No 10 of “one rule for them and the remainder of us do as we’re advised”.

The North West Leicestershire MP advised BBC Breakfast: “[This is] not about one remoted incident, what we’re seeing with these continued revelations popping out about what’s been happening at No 10 is a sample of behaviour, and in the end the buck stops with Boris Johnson.”