SNP MP Ian Blackford was pressed during a radio interview about calls for MPs to remove Boris Johnson from office in the wake of the ‘partygate’ affair.
Labour MP and radio personality David Lammy addressed the SNP MP with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s own statements in response to appeals for Conservative MPs to replace their leader from No 10 Downing Street. LBC host and Labour MP David Lammy said: “Can I just finally put that point to you, which is what Boris Johnson says so, clearly, look, I’m dealing with Ukraine.
“I’m getting on with the task and redoubling my effort. I apologized sorry numerous times, get over it.
“What’s the problem?’
Mr. Blackford responded: “The difficulty is, this is the first Prime Minister ever has been found guilty of breaking his own laws, the laws he wrote, and the laws that so many people subscribe to, and actually suffered as a consequence.
“People not being able to be in funerals without being with their loved ones who were dying.
“A prime minister who is now encouraging us to get over it.
“Goodness gracious he truly doesn’t get it, he doesn’t get it.
“Tory MPs have got to this job for the rest of us, remove this man from office.”
It comes as Mr. Johnson warned the Conservatives will “reap the maelstrom” of the Number 10 lockdown parties fiasco at the vote box as the danger of further police fines looms over him.
Former Conservative minister Steve Baker warned The Daily Telegraph the partygate issue might affect the Tories during the local elections on May 5, with his constituents expressing “fury” amid stories of lockdown breaches in Downing Street.
It comes after the prominent backbencher turned on the Prime Minister in the Commons this week, telling MPs the Conservative Party leader should have recognized the “gig’s up” after the Metropolitan Police found he had breached his own coronavirus regulations.
“People lived under barbaric rules. They were told that if they deviated one iota from the law they would kill people. And they suffered for it,” Mr Baker, who implied that he had written a letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister, told the newspaper.
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