Petronella Wyatt, who had a four-year relationship with Johnson while working for the Spectator magazine, said the government would stop and “every minute of the day would be spent saving Boris”. It comes as more than a dozen Tory MPs, including chancellor Rishi Sunak and health secretary Sajid Javid, quit the government urging the prime minister to resign over his behaviour. Johnson has refused to stand down despite allegations he has misled the country over his handling of an alleged sex abuse scandal involving a leading Tory. The Prime Minister narrowly avoided being forced into a no-confidence vote last month after being fined for breaking lockdown rules and deemed safe from ouster for another year under Tory rules. But frustrated Tory MPs are now due to meet on Wednesday evening to change the no-confidence procedures to allow another vote to be held immediately. If that happens, Johnson could be forced out by the summer break or as early as next week – but his good will to do the right thing and resign of his own free will continues. But in a social media post, Ms Wyatt, now an author and broadcaster, warned the Prime Minister was certain to stay in place for as long as possible. “Boris will never resign. He believes he has God’s right to rule in perpetuity,” he said. “This will be long, hard and very bad for the Tory Party and the country. There will be no government as every minute of the day is spent saving Boris.” As her ex-boyfriend faced a no-confidence vote from MPs last month, Ms Wyatt said Johnson was “surprisingly weak” and would be in “absolute hell” after Tory MPs turned against him. Johnson was sacked from the Tory frontbench in 2004 for lying about his affair with Ms Wyatt, which happened while he was married to his second wife Marina Wheeler. He had dismissed claims of an affair as an “inverted pyramid scheme” and assured his boss, then Tory leader Michael Howard, that it was untrue.
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Spain NATO Summit Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved But the relationship became public knowledge after Wyatt’s mother revealed her daughter had become pregnant by Mr Johnson and terminated the pregnancy. Mr. Johnson was reported to have paid for the abortion. It was the second time the now prime minister had been sacked for lying, having previously lost his job at the Times newspaper for fabricating a quote. Today, Johnson faces losing his job as prime minister for not telling the truth about his handling of allegations of sexual abuse by a Tory MP. Downing Street had claimed the prime minister was unaware of specific serious allegations against Chris Pincher before appointing the Tamworth MP’s deputy leader. But No 10 was hit back in a sensational intervention by Lord MacDonald, a former senior civil servant, who said Mr Johnson had indeed been personally briefed on the allegations. The prime minister later accepted he had been briefed and said his claims of ignorance were wrong.
