PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is finished and he should be planning for life outside government, according to a prominent former Labour MP.
Stephen Pound, a former MP for Ealing North, suggested it was inconceivable that the Tories would keep Boris Johnson as leader as he was now an electoral liability.
He told GB News: “You and I probably thought Partygate had finished but I mean, Lord Geidt’s letter [of resignation], if you do see Boris Johnson’s response, no ‘yours faithfully, no ‘yours sincerely’, just Boris Johnson is pretty brutal…
“Something has gone seriously and profoundly wrong. I think we’re in the endgame.
“I think we’re in the Twilight of the Gods at the present time because inflation is rolling like a boulder down the hill.
“The cost of borrowing is going to increase massively. That will then affect people’s credit, that’ll affect their purchasing power and it’s going to be a real, real problem.”
Mr Pound, speaking to Tom Harwood on GB News, said the Prime Minister should be planning what to do after leaving office.
“Boris Johnson should actually be considering what he’s going to do when he’s no longer Prime Minister,” he said.
“Because, you know, if he’s not going to lead the Tories in the next [General] Election, they’re going to lose the two by elections on Thursday.
“He’s going to be replaced and he’s got no money. He’s famously fiscally incontinent.”
Mr pound said that Lord David Frost, the PM former chief Brexit negotiator, appeared to be emerging as a potential replacement.
He said: “The David Frost later bandwagon is rolling. There are a lot of people who are actually pushing and prodding.”
