Recently ousted prime minister Boris Johnson’s are pushing him to replace fellow conservative member of Parliament Liz Truss, who replaced Johnson as prime minister just seven weeks ago after Johnson was forced out for violating coronavirus protocols his administration put in place, the Associated Press reports.
Calling Johnson “a known winner,” Conservative Party MP Nadine Dorries pushed reinstalling Johnson saying, “Having a winner in place is what the Party needs to survive,” she told Sky News.
The nomination was not universally praised. Many members of the Conservative Party stated they would leave the Party if Johnson was the Party’s nominee for the position, making it impossible to put together a coalition to put Johnson in place.
“I cannot see any way forward in government, at any level, for somebody who is under that kind of scrutiny, and I think highly divisive,” Conservative Party MP Roger Gale said on a radio program. “And I think that there would be people, indeed like myself, who would find ourselves in the awful position of having to resign the Conservative whip.”