Now 8.40pm Group Of Ministers Ask Pm To Resign And The Rout Contunues- Changing The Guard As Pm's Ministers Resign - Total Now Over 30 And Rising
6th July 2022
Difficult to keep up with resignations as they seem to be turning into a flood.
8.40pm
Even more ministers resigns 11 Cabinet ministers in one day is the highest since 1932. The clock is ticking.
4.45pm
A group of ministers are are combining to ask for PM resignation shortly.
Letters of No Confidence have been going in all day apart from resignations by ministers. Some are publishing online. Even one a few moments ago from MP Huw Merriman while he was asking questions of Boris Johnson at the Liaison Committee now in session.
Update 15:54
Safeguarding Minister Rachel Maclean has become the latest minister to resign.
Update 15:50
Rachel Maclean, a junior minister in the Home Office.
Update 15:48pm
MP for Montgomeryshire Craig Williams is the latest Parliamentary Private Secretary to resign.
Update 15:45pm
Bolton MP Mark Logan resigns as Parliamentary Secretary
Mark Logan, Conservative MP for Bolton North East - one of the new generation of so-called Red Wall Tories - has resigned his post as a Parliamentary Private Secretary.
Update 3.00pm
Mims Davies quits - She was employment minister at the Department for Work and Pensions.
Update 2.30pm
Five more government ministers quit
Five further ministers have just resigned from the government.
Kemi Badenoch, Neil O'Brien, Alex Burghart, Lee Rowley and Julia Lopez have all resigned in a single letter.
Julia Lopez was a culture minister.
Lee Rowley was a business minister.
Alex Burghart was an education minister.
Neil O'Brien was a levelling up minister.
Kemi Badenoch was a local government minister.
Update at 10.50pm today 6 July 2022 - 18 Now Resigned.
Latest list of resignations from UK Government.
Cabinet
Chancellor Rishi Sunak
Health Secretary Sajid Javid
Ministers
Will Quince, education minister
Alex Chalk, solicitor general
Robin Walker, education minister
John Glen, Treasury minister
Victoria Atkins, justice minister
Jo Churchill, environment minister
Stuart Andrew, housing minister
Parliamentary private secretaries
Jonathan Gullis, Northern Ireland Office
Saqib Bhatti, Department of Health and Social Care
Nicola Richards, Department of Transport
Virginia Crosbie, Welsh Office
Laura Trott, Department of Transport
Felicity Buchan, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Others
Bim Afolami, vice-chairman of the Conservative Party for youth
Andrew Murrison, trade envoy to Morocco
Theodora Clarke, trade envoy to Kenya
Prime Ministers question time should be interesting today. How will the new ministers stand up and defend a prime minister sinking in a sea of lies. How can they support this calling into question their own integrity. As the list of conservatives with the courage to face up the pm grows are we about to see a total collapse of support.
Update 11.10am today
Treasury Minister John Glen quits
Update at 10.10am today 6 July.
Another minister quits
Another junior minister has just resigned - the third this morning. Robin Walker was minister for school standards.
In a statement, the MP for Worcester says the government has been "overshadowed by mistakes and questions about integrity".
This takes the total number of resignations since yesterday evening to 13.
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Several conservatives resigned from posts yesterday and early today the rout continued.
Consequently new people have been rapidly appointed.
The Queen has been pleased to approve the following appointments:
Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi MP to be Chancellor of the Exchequer
Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP to be Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP to be Secretary of State for Education
Rishi Sunak's resignation letter and the Prime Minister's response
See the letters at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rishi-sunaks-resignation-letter-and-the-prime-ministers-response
Sajid Javid's resignation letter and the Prime Minister's response
See the letters at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sajid-javids-resignation-letter-and-the-prime-ministers-response
A few have gone today and earlier
Alex Chalk, resigned as Solicitor General
Will Quince, resigned as children and families minister
Bim Afolami, resigned as Tory vice chair
Saqib Bhatti, resigned as parliamentary private secretary to the health secretary
Jonathan Gullis, resigned as parliamentary private secretary to the Northern Ireland secretary
Andrew Murrison, resigned as trade envoy to Morocco
Nicola Richards, resigned as parliamentary private secretary for the Department for Transport
Virginia Crosbie, resigned as parliamentary private secretary at the Welsh Office
Theo Clarke, resigned as trade envoy to Kenya
Laura Trott, resigned as parliamentary private secretary in the Department of Transport
Christopher Pincher
Pincher, the man at the centre of the latest Government controversy, resigned on June 30 from his role as deputy chief whip over an allegation of drunken "groping".
Oliver Dowden
Dowden resigned from his role as Chairman of the Conservative Party on June 24 2022. He resigned following the results of the Tiverton and Honiton and Wakefield by-elections, which saw the Tories lose both seats.
John Lamont
Lamont stood down from his role as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary on June 6. He quit having voted against Johnson as leader in a vote of confidence.
Paul Holmes
Holmes resigned from his role as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Secretary on May 27. He raised concerns about the Government's "toxic culture" following the Sue Gray report.
The Lord Wolfson of Tredegar QC
David Wolfson resigned from his role as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice on April 13. He resigned over Partygate and Johnson's "repeated rule breaking and breaches of the criminal law in Downing Street".
Changes we know about but more to come -
Nadhim Zahawi, the former education secretary has been appointed chancellor, replacing Mr Sunak
Steve Barclay, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and minister for the Cabinet Office, has been promoted to health secretary, replacing Mr Javid
Michelle Donelan, education minister, replaces Mr Zahawi as education secretary
Parliamentary private secretaries also resigned
Jonathan Gullis, Northern Ireland Office
Saqib Bhatti, Department of Health and Social Care
Nicola Richards, Department of Transport
Virginia Crosbie, Welsh Office
Laura Trott, Department of Transport
and yet more gone
Bim Afolami, vice-chairman of the Conservative Party for youth
Andrew Murrison, trade envoy to Morocco
Theodora Clarke, trade envoy to Kenya
