Tory Backbenchers Plot Ousting Boris Johnson Amid Anger Over Partygate, Vaccine Passport

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a press conference for the latest CCP virus update in the Downing Street briefing room in central London on Dec. 8, 2021. Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images

Some of the UK’s Conservative backbenchers have been talking about ousting Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a senior Tory said on Friday.

Lord Gavin Barwell, former chief of staff under Theresa May, wrote on Twitter that Conservative MPs are angry with the prime minister because they “rightly” think many of the government’s problems “are self-inflicted and result from his style of government.”