Boris will fight to survive partygate scandal with plans to level up the UK & avert war in Ukraine
BORIS Johnson will rocket boost his fight for survival this week with plans to level up the UK, curb the cost of living crisis and avert war in Ukraine.
The embattled PM is said to be “fizzing with energy” as he aims to calm MPs’ anger over No 10 parties, National Insurance hikes and soaring gas prices.
Key ally Conor Burns claims Boris is still the right man for the job.
He said: “This is a man in the prime of life who is fizzing with energy, steely in determination and with an agenda to improve the lives and communities of every person in every part of our great country.
“Armed with the 80-seat majority Sun readers gave him two years ago, he is up for it.”
With Sue Gray’s report into lockdown breaches in Downing Street imminent, the PM will call the Kremlin to urge Vladimir Putin to pull back his battalions.
And he will unleash a barrage of policies to level up the nation to appease mutinous 2019-elected MPs.
He will also hold crunch meetings with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to help the least well-off deal with the cost of living crisis.
The PM will then turn his attention to tech giants with an Australian-style system to force them to pay newspapers for content.
And, on the second anniversary of Brexit, he will fast-track new laws to rip up EU red tape in a “Brexit Freedoms” Bill. It will help strip out legislations “carried over” from Britain’s time in the bloc.
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The PM said: “We have made huge strides since then to capitalise on our newfound freedoms and restore the UK’s status as a sovereign, independent country that can determine its own future.”
While questions still loom over the PM’s future, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said he is “absolutely” the best person to lead the Conservatives.
And 55 per cent of Tory party members polled now believe the partygate anger was “overblown”, ConHome website revealed.
But MP Tom Tugendhat declared his interest in the top job at the weekend.
And yesterday, the PM’s former top aide Dominic Cummings admitted he had been trying to “get rid” of him.
It comes after Boris allegedly told him: “I’m the f***ing king around here and I’m going to do what I want.’”
CONOR BURNS: Boris's determination to deliver for the British people is total
By CONOR BURNS, Tory MP and Boris ally
IN May 2019 the Conservative Party came 5th in a UK’s last ever election of European MPs winning a pathetic 8.8 per cent of the vote.
Parliament was gridlocked as the political elite tried every trick in the book – and some not in the book – to thwart the result of the Brexit referendum.
Having placed himself at the head of the Leave campaign Boris Johnson was resolved to deliver for the millions who had quietly and stubbornly defied the patronising sneers of the Remain campaign and voted to take back control of their country.
Fast forward to December 2019 – Boris had called an election in a bid to crack the Brexit stalemate.
As he barnstormed around the country it was obvious something was afoot.
The British people were embracing him.
They could see he was on their side – he was one of them.He won a thunderous landslide – the biggest Tory win since Maggie Thatcher in 1987.
And for Boris – just like Maggie before him – it was Sun readers what won it.
He got Brexit done.
He turbocharged our international trade ambitions. But then the tsunami of Covid-19 hit.
Yet despite his own brush with death Boris toiled mightily to protect the British people and get us through a crisis not seen for a generation.
But because of his buccaneering risk taking the UK was in the vanguard in getting a vaccine.
He protected jobs and the economy through furlough.
And because he got the big judgement calls right we are in great shape to build back better.
Boris isn’t just my leader and Prime Minister.
He is my friend and I know how much he loves this country and cares for the British people.
This is a man in the prime of life who is fizzing with energy, steely in determination and with an agenda to improve the lives and communities of every person in every part of our great country.
Armed with the 80 seat majority Sun readers gave him just two years ago he is up for it.
His faith in the British people is absolute and his determination to deliver for you is total.