to resign over the claims of downing street lockdown parties and submitted a letter of no confidence. nick gibb who was schools minister until last year accused the prime minister of flagra ntly disregarding the rules . mrjohnson has written to all of his mps, pledging to improve the way downing street operates. our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. borisjohnson left downing street for the weekend last night and escaped to the countryside, perhaps, but there s no escaping his difficulties. nick gibb, a former schools minister, the latest mp to submit a letter of no confidence. in today s telegraph, which once carried mrjohnson s columns, he says. adding. others disagree. there s a number of mps and
there s also no way of checking whether that in there, as well. so, this is a secret process. we know nine mps have said that they had. the threshold for triggering a vote of confidence is 5a, 15% of the conservative parliamentary party, 15% of conservative mps. we know that hasn t yet been reached or certainly not been announced it has been reached because they haven t told us, so we know we re not there yet but, said, what we have seen over recent days as a trickle of people coming forward and saying we put of a letter in, the latest of which is nick gibb, and he is quite interesting. he s a former schools minister who served under david cameron, theresa may and borisjohnson until he was sacked in a reshuffle last year, and he is not exactly
to all of his mps, pledging to improve the way downing street operates. our political correspondent damian grammaticus reports. he left downing street for the weekend last night and escaped to the countryside. there s no escaping his difficulties. nick gibb, the former schools minister, the latest mp to submit a letter of no confidence in today s telegraph which once carried johnson s columns. he says it was inaccurate of the prime minister told the house of commons there was no party in downing street, adding. his conclusion. others disagree. of course there are problems. the prime minister himself has suggested that there are problems. he has apologised preciously for them. but i think there is a big
for the weekend last night and escaped to the countryside, perhaps, but there s no escaping his difficulties. nick gibb, a former schools minister, the latest mp to submit a letter of no confidence. in today s telegraph, which once carried mrjohnson s columns, he says. adding. others disagree. of course there are problems. the prime minister himself has suggested that there are problems. he has apologised graciously for them. but i think there is a big mistake going on here. there s an assumption that he s the office manager of the number 10 downing street. he s not. he s not responsible either for paying the electricity bill or for making sure that all the social distancing rules are observed all the time 21w,
conservative parliamentary party, 15% of conservative mps. we know that hasn t yet been reached or announced it has been reached because they haven t told us that we know we not there yet but, said, what we have seen over recent days as a trickle of people coming forward and saying i ve put of income of income of the latest of which is nick gibb and he is quite interesting and a former schools minister who served under david cameron, theresa may and boris johnson until he was sacked in a reshuffle last year and he is not exactly known as a firebrand rebel in westminster, he is quite quiet and not in the papers all the time, so the fact that he has chosen to make it public feels quite common sort of, significant in itself and he has also written an article in the daily telegraph which is pretty blunt in which he says it was inaccurate of the prime minister to tell the house of commons there was no party in downing street. he says his constituents in bognor regis and littlehampton are fu