Boris Johnson Faces Party Mutiny over Covid Restrictions
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a rebellion from his Cabinet if he tries to introduce harsher coronavirus restrictions in England if the new restrictions the government plans to bring in on the 15th of December fail to decrease Covid cases.
This latest rebellion comes after over 60 Conservative Members of Parliament (MPs) have already pledged to vote against Boris’s latest restrictions in Parliament.
I fully agree with this. I do not and will not support these proposals. https://t.co/weNRQgX6Ai
— Brendan Clarke-Smith MP (@Bren4Bassetlaw) December 8, 2021
These new restrictions, known as ‘Plan B’, include mandatory mask-wearing in England in most public indoor settings, the implementation of domestic vaccine passports for large events, and guidance advising that people should work from home.
Commentators across the political spectrum, as well as business leaders have heavily criticised Plan B.
Ben Harris-Quinney, chairman of Britain’s oldest conservative think tank, the Bow Group, has called Plan B “political suicide”, and even mainstream figures such as the TV pundit and lockdown enthusiast Piers Morgan have branded the plans “utter nonsense“.- READ MORE
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