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The Tories will remove the prime minister if he is not performing, Lord Duncan said.

“A new political party is not a ready meal. “The important thing is that Douglas Ross got it right when it mattered,” Lord Duncan said. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “When it mattered, he cast a vote for what he deemed to be right. “If they’re not delivering, they are removed.” “A political party which has no relationship to the Tory party, formal or informal, and has no involvement in elections to Westminster,” he wrote in The Herald on Sunday.

Tory MPs are already braced for the legislation, due to be published on Monday, to breach international law, despite protestations from cabinet ministers that ...

It is not apparent that they have done that here, and as a result they should not be allowed to hide behind a rule that they themselves have already broken.” Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “It looks to me like they have gone out looking for a political judgement,” he added.

The Northern Ireland Bill on Brexit introduced tomorrow is a desperate 'break glass' attempt to divert public attention, writes shadow Cabinet Office ...

They think a row with the EU will deliver a political pay-off but the truth is they've run out of Brexit road. A Labour government would buy British, not for the sake of it but because it’s the best. Time to fix the problems with the deal once and for all so Government can deal with the real and immediate crisis facing millions of British families.

MPs say the legislation "is damaging to everything the UK and Conservatives stand for".

And they add: “It is time to return to a Conservative way forward: acting with integrity, respecting the treaties we sign, strengthening not weakening our precious Union, backing business and honouring the democratic we promised to Northern Ireland on the protocol. A document being shared among Tory backbenchers sets out their opposition to the legislation, which they say risks a trade war with the EU and is also a threat to the Union itself. Boris Johnson is facing a major Tory rebellion over the government’s plans to rip up the Northern Ireland protocol.

The Tory tussle sums up the Prime Minister's problem in keeping his party and voter coalition together. BLACKPOOL, ENGLAND - JUNE 09: Prime Minister Boris ...

Some Tories believe the coalition of MPs and voters that delivered the party’s thumping 2019 election victory is unsustainable in the long run, and that Mr Johnson, or whoever is leader, will eventually have to pick a side. But if he does this to gain their support, he risks losing the backing of the ERG and other Brexiteer MPs in so-called “Red Wall” constituencies that overwhelmingly backed Leave in the 2016 referendum, and where voters respond well to culture war issues. But the tussle sums up why Mr Johnson may find it difficult to restore his authority in this fractured Conservative Party.

BORIS JOHNSON has been urged to step his game up, after winning a vote of confidence in his leadership of the Conservative Party. But what exactly could ...

If Mr Johnson did resign, a Tory party leadership contest would take place. However, it has not removed calls for him to resign without delay, and instead led to speculation about how much longer he can remain in office. A poor showing from Mr Johnson’s party in either could give greater emphasis for a new vote of confidence to take place.

Lord Duncan said the Conservative leader was on "probation" and remained in "troubled waters" despite surviving confidence vote.

That in itself is a good sign. He’s got a bit of time, he can turn this around, if he can make people almost forget what has happened over the last few months – then he has a slim chance of carrying on. “He probably is in troubled waters.

Boris Johnson poses a threat to the future of the Conservative Party and has a “very slim chance” of clinging on to power, an influential Scottish peer has ...

Lib Dems say failure to provide it would look like 'yet another attempt to cover up Boris Johnson's repeated lies and law-breaking'

“This government seems to be developing a record for law-breaking, and it’s not one that the Labour party can support. “The protocol is the mechanism that gives the north, uniquely, unfettered access to the European market. Pressed further, he said: “The government lawyers are very clear that we are working within the law. “The protocol is working,” she told Ridge’s show. “The public deserves full transparency over the legality of plans to rip up the Northern Ireland protocol and risk a trade war with our closest neighbours. Lewis said: “What we’re looking to do is to fix the problems we’ve seen with the protocol.

Luis Pitarma was one of two nurses who looked after Prime Minister Boris Johnson when he was in intensive care in hospital, but now he has spoken out ...

Later in the interview she added: "We’re not getting the respect and now pay that we deserve. I would like to share this distinction with all the other Portuguese nurses working in the UK. I am sure my colleagues are doing as excellent a job as the one I did”. It is a recognition of the efforts and hard work over the years. So I’ve handed in my resignation.” It was just very upsetting,”, Luis said: “I don’t think it [having all those parties] was the best attitude.

THE Prime Minister plans to introduce legislation seeking to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol on Monday – but he's risking a serious Tory…

On Sunday, backbenchers were sharing a document setting out their opposition to the new bill. The bill due to come before Parliament will see the Government move without the consent of the EU to change the terms of the international treaty in a bid to reduce the checks on the movement of goods across the Irish Sea. The UK Government has confirmed it will table the legislation to override parts of the protocol, which was jointly agreed by the UK and EU as part of the Withdrawal Agreement to keep the Irish land border free-flowing.