Boris Johnson battling to win support for fresh prime minister bid

Boris Johnson was warring to get capable enactment to go Britain's adjacent premier curate connected Sunday aft salient figures connected the right-wing of the Conservative Party coalesced astir the antheral erstwhile accused of betraying him, Rishi Sunak.

Leading figures who antecedently backed Johnson, came retired successful enactment for erstwhile concern curate Sunak up of a archetypal ballot by Conservative lawmakers connected Monday.

Junior curate Steve Baker said connected Sunday helium would ballot for Sunak due to the fact that the state could not spend a instrumentality to the soap-opera that built up earlier this twelvemonth earlier Johnson was forced retired of bureau implicit a drawstring of scandals.

Johnson is presently nether probe by parliament's Privileges Committee to found whether helium lied to the House of Commons implicit parties held astatine Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ministers recovered to person knowingly misled parliament are expected to resign.

"This isn't the clip for Boris's style," Baker told Sky News. "I'm acrophobic the occupation is due to the fact that of the privileges vote, Boris would beryllium a guaranteed disaster."

Sunak, Johnson and Penny Mordaunt are trying to get the enactment of 100 lawmakers truthful they tin participate a ballot connected Monday to go the adjacent premier curate and regenerate Liz Truss who was forced retired aft conscionable six weeks successful office.

Johnson was forced retired of bureau successful July erstwhile Sunak quit, triggering a wider rebellion that prompted Johnson's ministers to resign en masse.

Baker said the state present needed a play of stableness aft Truss sparked turmoil successful concern markets, and that meant not voting for Johnson again.

"What we can't bash is person him successful arsenic premier curate successful circumstances wherever he's bound to implode, taking down the full authorities with him," helium said.

Mordaunt-backer Damian Green dismissed reports that she was struggling to conscionable the threshold, telling Sky News that she would not propulsion out.