Another One Bites The Dust. Children’s Minister Resigns.

[Gromit]

Will Quince who was humiliated on Monday has resigned.

He said: "With great sadness and regret, I have this morning tendered my resignation to the prime minister after I accepted and repeated assurances on Monday to the media which have now been found to be inaccurate."

Oh dear.

[Peter Pedant]

That is not a reason to go is it?
I was fed a loadda lies: dont look at me....

as Samuel said ( Johnson, no not that one, yes that one I mean: not Gulliver), An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country

eheu, vae victis - - Farticus I think

[Gromit]

Ick is correct. Some have resigned as Parliamentary Private Secretarys.

Cabinet ministers who have resigned from Boris Johnson's government:

Rishi Sunak, chancellor (5 July)
Sajid Javid, health secretary (5 July)
Oliver Dowden, party chairman (24 June)

Junior ministers, trade envoys and party officials who have resigned from Boris Johnson's government:

Bim Afolami, party vice chairman (5 July)
Andrew Murrison, trade envoy to Tunisia and Morocco (5 July)
Alex Chalk, solicitor general (5 July)
Theo Clarke, trade envoy to Kenya (5 July)
Will Quince, children and families minister (6 July)
Robin Walker, education minister (6 July)

Parliamentary private secretaries and others who have resigned from Boris Johnson's government:

Saqib Bhatti, PPS in the Department for Health and Social Care (5 July)
Jonathan Gullis, PPS to the Northern Ireland secretary (5 July)
Nicola Richards, PPS in the Department for Transport (5 July)
Virginia Crosbie, PPS in the Wales Office (5 July)
Laura Trott, PPS in the Department for Transport (6 July)

[FatticusInch]

Naomi is looking for spoils and mini battles even though the war is lost, she just can’t come to terms with it right now.
She hates it when any other Tory criticises Johnson.

[naomi24]

Your imagination is getting the better of you again, FatticusInch. :o)

[Gromit]

She has got out of the wrong side of the bed today :-)

[naomi24]

Not me, Gromit. It's not my fault if you make yourself look daft and people notice. ;o)

[JDavis]

Rees-Mogg's so-called loyalty is disingenuous. It's unlikely any other party leader would want him in the Cabinet anyway.

[jno]

there's quite a queue of MPs announcing that they've had enough of Boris (all except Javid have of course waited for someone else to do it first, brave folk that they are).

The theory now is that the 1922 committee chairman might tell Boris that if there's another vote he'll lose, and he'll then decide to resign without waiting for it. Roughly what happened to May, iirc.

[Peter Pedant]

One thing about the usual suspects: you can be sure you wont learn anything ( smiley icon)

PMQ 12 30 should be good
will Boris liken it to being mauled by a dead sheep?

( more smiley foo-foo)

[davebro]

Among all this turmoil I have great sympathy with the people who actually run this country - The Civil Service!

[Peter Pedant]

"telling on sir" is problematical - - he can fire you
and in my wide experience, being invited to tell on anyone at work usually hides er a hidden agendy

and if the hit fails, what chance for the job

[and anarchist that I am, I have told men: "they are after you: if you wish to remain in your job start behaving". and as you can imagine some did and some didnt. ]

Did any of Thatcher's assassins thrive? I bet Naomi knows

[Peter Pedant]

// I have great sympathy with the people who actually run this country - The Civil Service!//

|I dont - they pay themselves far too much and can do much better at running the country.

Do you know how much Lord Foppington ( head of the civil service, letter writing, stiletto wielder ) was paid (£200k)
[just in case someone knows and then says she wont tell)

[naomi24]

//I bet Naomi knows //

You lose.

[Gromit]

// It's not my fault if you make yourself look daft //

Not as daft as you who thought the Chancellor was born in Southampton, when he was born in Baghdad, Iraq :-)

[naomi24]

Gromit, take a breath. The chancellor in office until last night was born in Southampton.

[jno]

to add to Gromit's list, recent retirees now include Victoria Atkins, Home Office minister, Treasury minister John Glen and PPS Felicity Buchan.

[Gromit]

Naomi

I wrote about the Chancellor being a refugee from Iraq. Here are your replies:

// He was born in Southampton.... but don't let that stop you stirring, Gromit. //

// Geography not your forte, Gromit? //

// Careful you don't cut yourself as you so often do, gromit .. you being so smart and all that //

// Gromit, you're making a twit of yourself. //

You make the stupid error but then you question my geography abilities, then call me daft and a twit.
Usual AB nonsense.

[ichkeria]

“Sinking ships leaving the rat”

I must say that was a good line

[youngmafbog]

Cant see Stuart Andrew, housing, on the list.