Tory Donor Backing Boris Johnson To Pull Funds Unless Corrupt Leadership Rules Change

Peter Krudas, a leading ally of Boris Johnson who had pushed to be on the ballot this summer, called for major changes to stop future Tory prime ministers being removed in the same way. The Tory peer said the current process carried out by the 1922 Committee of Tory supporters, which allows a majority of MPs to oust a prime minister “stinks”. “If nothing changes, if Boris goes too [party] the constitution remains the same, I don’t care [in donating]Lord Crundas, who has given more than £3m to the party, told a Tortoise podcast. He added: “It’s not a personal matter. It’s just the wrong way to run a business. It is the wrong way to run a political party and it will only get worse. I can’t give the party – what they did to Boris is just a catalyst to say ‘enough’. Lord Crundash launched a petition to have Johnson added to the Tory MPs’ ballot as a choice alongside candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak after the prime minister resigned in July. Going further, the Tory peer said the way Johnson was ousted by MPs in his own party was “wrong” and “corrupt”, adding: “The whole thing stinks”. “It’s essentially been constructively dismissed by a group of MPs for whatever reason, but the problem with that is that it goes against the electorate and it’s not right for a political party to have the tail wagging the dog,” he said on the podcast. . Claiming that the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs had too much power and party members not enough, the Johnson ally said: “You can’t have a group of MPs controlling everything, what we have today.” He added: “The party belongs to the members and I want the members to have a greater say. I want to get the 1922 Committee out of the Conservative Party.” Recent polls have shown that Tory members still prefer Johnson to Sunak or Truss – who remains the strong favorite to win the contest. Successive surveys show signs of “Johnson nostalgia” and regret over the prime minister’s political demise over Partygate and an apparent lack of enthusiasm for any of his potential successors. Lord Crundas claimed that the Tory party was now self-destructive. He said: “What you are seeing today is the self-destruction of the Conservative Party and it has to change.” The winner of the race will be announced on Monday 5 September, Parliament’s return date, by Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Commission. Johnson is expected to visit the Queen at Buckingham Palace or Balmoral to hand in his resignation on September 6, with his successor making the same trip to be called upon to form a government. The latest YouGov poll – which found Truss’s lead over Sunak to be 27 points – also found that one in five Tories (22 per cent) hold a grudge against Sunak for helping to bring down Johnson.

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Peter Krudas, a leading ally of Boris Johnson who had pushed to be on the ballot this summer, called for major changes to stop future Tory prime ministers being removed in the same way. The Tory peer said the current process carried out by the 1922 Committee of Tory supporters, which allows a majority of MPs to oust a prime minister “stinks”. “If nothing changes, if Boris goes too [party] the constitution remains the same, I don’t care [in donating]Lord Crundas, who has given more than £3m to the party, told a Tortoise podcast. He added: “It’s not a personal matter. It’s just the wrong way to run a business. It is the wrong way to run a political party and it will only get worse. I can’t give the party – what they did to Boris is just a catalyst to say ‘enough’. Lord Crundash launched a petition to have Johnson added to the Tory MPs’ ballot as a choice alongside candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak after the prime minister resigned in July. Going further, the Tory peer said the way Johnson was ousted by MPs in his own party was “wrong” and “corrupt”, adding: “The whole thing stinks”. “It’s essentially been constructively dismissed by a group of MPs for whatever reason, but the problem with that is that it goes against the electorate and it’s not right for a political party to have the tail wagging the dog,” he said on the podcast. . Claiming that the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs had too much power and party members not enough, the Johnson ally said: “You can’t have a group of MPs controlling everything, what we have today.” He added: “The party belongs to the members and I want the members to have a greater say. I want to get the 1922 Committee out of the Conservative Party.” Recent polls have shown that Tory members still prefer Johnson to Sunak or Truss – who remains the strong favorite to win the contest. Successive surveys show signs of “Johnson nostalgia” and regret over the prime minister’s political demise over Partygate and an apparent lack of enthusiasm for any of his potential successors. Lord Crundas claimed that the Tory party was now self-destructive. He said: “What you are seeing today is the self-destruction of the Conservative Party and it has to change.” The winner of the race will be announced on Monday 5 September, Parliament’s return date, by Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Commission. Johnson is expected to visit the Queen at Buckingham Palace or Balmoral to hand in his resignation on September 6, with his successor making the same trip to be called upon to form a government. The latest YouGov poll – which found Truss’s lead over Sunak to be 27 points – also found that one in five Tories (22 per cent) hold a grudge against Sunak for helping to bring down Johnson.