Boris Johnson will “never” resign and believes he has a “God-given right to rule forever”, the prime minister’s ex-girlfriend has said.
Petronella Wyatt, who had a four-year relationship with Mr Johnson while working at the Spectator magazine, said the government would grind to a halt and “every minute of the day would be devoted to saving Boris”.
It comes after more than a dozen Tory MPs, including chancellor Rishi Sunak and health secretary Sajid Javid, quit the government, calling on the prime minister to step down over his behaviour.
Mr Johnson has refused to resign despite multiple allegations that he misled the country over the handling of an alleged sexual abuse case involving a senior Tory.
The prime minister narrowly avoided being ousted in a vote of no confidence last month after being fined for breaking lockdown rules and was thought to be safe from being suspended for another year under Tory rules.
But frustrated Conservative MPs are now set to gather on Wednesday night to change the no-confidence vote procedures to allow another vote to take place immediately.
If that happens, Mr Johnson could be forced out by the summer break or as early as next week – but calls for him to do the right thing and leave of his own volition continue.
However, in a social media post, Ms Wyatt, now a writer and broadcaster, warned that the Prime Minister was certain to stay in office for as long as possible.
“Boris will never resign. He thinks he has a God-given right to rule forever,” she said.
“This is going to be long, drawn out and very bad for the Tory party and the country. There will be no government as every minute of the day will be devoted to saving Boris.”
As her ex-boyfriend faced a vote of no confidence by MPs last month, Ms Wyatt said she claimed Mr Johnson was “surprisingly thin” and would be in “absolute hell” after Tory MPs turned against him.
Mr Johnson was sacked from the Tory frontbench in 2004 for lying about his affair with Ms Wyatt, which took place when he was married to his second wife Marina Wheeler.
He dismissed the affair claims as an “inverted pyramid of idiots” and assured his boss, then Tory leader Michael Howard, that they were untrue.
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The UK government is facing another drunken scandal after the deputy mayor left office
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But the relationship became public after Ms Wyatt’s mother revealed her daughter had become pregnant by Mr Johnson and terminated the pregnancy. Mr. Johnson reportedly paid for the abortion.
It was the second time the current prime minister had been sacked for lying, having previously lost his job at The Times newspaper for making up a quote.
Mr Johnson today faces losing his job as Prime Minister after he did not tell the truth about how he dealt with allegations of sexual abuse by a Tory MP.
Downing Street claimed the PM was unaware of specific serious allegations against Chris Pincher before appointing the Tamworth MP as whp deputy chief.
But Number 10 was refuted in a sensational intervention by Lord Macdonald, a former senior civil servant, who said Mr Johnson had in fact been personally briefed on the specific allegations. The prime minister later admitted he had been briefed and said his claims of ignorance were a mistake.
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