BY HARRIET LINE
- The Chancellor and Health Secretary quit with an excoriating blast at Boris Johnson over standards tonight
- Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid announced their resignations within just nine minutes as the PM gave an interview
- In a parting shot, Mr Javid said he’d lost confidence in Johnson and hinted Government no longer ‘competent’
- Mr Sunak wrote that people expected government to be ‘conducted properly, competently and seriously’
The Chancellor and Health Secretary quit with an excoriating blast at Boris Johnson over standards and competence tonight, but aides insisted it was not a coordinated putsch.
Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid announced they were resigning within nine minutes of each other – just as the Prime Minister was giving a televised statement apologizing for the Chris Pincher row.
In a brutal parting shot, Mr Javid said he had lost confidence in the PM and suggested the Government was no longer ‘competent’.
Mr Sunak said he had ‘reluctantly come to the conclusion that we cannot continue like this’ and that people expected government to be ‘conducted properly, competently and seriously’.
