‘Stop plotting against the PM’: Former Trade Secretary Liam Fox urges fellow Tories to get behind Boris Johnson… the man who sacked him from the Cabinet
- Liam Fox has pleaded with Tory MPs not to force Boris Johnson out of office
- The former trade secretary said it was the ‘wrong time’ for a leadership challenge
- He said any challenge now would result in ‘division and paralysis’ in government
A senior minister sacked by Boris Johnson has pleaded with Tory MPs not to force the Prime Minister out.
Former trade secretary Liam Fox said it was the ‘wrong time’ to launch a leadership challenge that would result in ‘division and paralysis’.
‘This is a time for the whole Government to concentrate its efforts on the substantial tasks at hand rather than engaging in a bout of navel-gazing,’ Dr Fox wrote on the Conservative Home website.
In a swipe at those around Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss who are said to be plotting to overthrow Boris Johnson, he added: ‘We do not need potential candidates forming shadow campaign teams.’
Former trade secretary Liam Fox (pictured) said it was the ‘wrong time’ to launch a leadership challenge that would result in ‘division and paralysis’
His intervention came as an Ipsos Mori poll found an overwhelming majority of voters believe the Government is doing a bad job on the NHS, crime, borders and the economy.
Respondents said the Prime Minister was failing to manage the economy, handle Brexit and solve issues of immigration after being elected in 2019.
The one positive was that those surveyed said ministers were doing a good job of ensuring the public are vaccinated against Covid.
The polling found that 70 per cent of people said they were doing a bad job on the NHS.
On handling immigration 73per cent of those polled said the Government had done a bad job of managing immigration, while just 14 per cent said it had done a good job.
Well over half of respondents said Mr Johnson’s administration had done a bad job of dealing with crime (59 per cent), handling Brexit (57 per cent) and pursuing its ‘levelling up’ agenda (66 per cent).
His intervention came as an Ipsos Mori poll found an overwhelming majority of voters believe the Government is doing a bad job on the NHS, crime, borders and the economy
The Government also fared badly on the economy (49per cent), taxation (58per cent) and education (55 per cent).
But despite these negative impressions, voters have responded positively to the UK’s Covid vaccine roll-out.
Eighty-four per cent of the 1,005 people polled between December 3 and 10 said the Government had done a good job on the vaccine roll-out, with only 11 per cent saying it had done a bad job.
It comes after weeks of bad headlines following claims a series of Christmas parties were held in Number 10 and Government departments despite the public being banned from holding their own, and sleaze allegations about ministers.
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