Boris Johnson leaving the Commons in ‘disgrace’, says standards committee chair – UK politics live

Johnson’s departure from political life comes less than four years after he won an 80-seat general election majority

Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey has said there should be a general election following the resignation of Boris Johnson as an MP.

Speaking to the Today programme, he said:

I think there should actually be a general election.

I think the chaos and division in the Conservative party, the fact that they’re so out of touch on the cost of living, on the NHS, it means we’ve got to put the country out of its misery with these Conservatives.

To me, he is a coward.

He knows that the Privileges Committee has seen through this fiasco and he has jumped.

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