Scottish Tory leader calls for PM to quit

The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has said this afternoon that Boris Johnson must step down from his premiership.

Douglas Ross, the MP for Moray, said he was “regretfully” calling for the PM to resign after they spoke for 15 minutes over the phone following today’s Prime Minister’s Questions.

Echoing deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner’s remarks earlier this week, Mr Ross argued that Mr Johnson’s position was “no longer tenable” after the PM used his introductory remarks to PMQs to apologise for a party in the Downing Street garden in May 2020, in which he still maintained that he believed it had been a work event.

Mr Ross reiterated his comments made yesterday that Mr Johnson ought to resign is he attended the party but expressed regret that “we didn’t do things differently that evening” and that in hindsight everyone ought to have been sent inside. 

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer reiterated comments made earlier today that the PM ought to resign, describing his apology  as “worthless” and “offensive to the British public”.