Boris Johnson gathers Cabinet as poll shows 10-POINT Labour lead

Boris Johnson prepares to wield the axe: PM gathers his Cabinet ahead of mini-reshuffle expected to oust chief whip Mark Spencer and promote Jacob Rees-Mogg as new poll gives Labour a 10-POINT lead

  • The Prime Minister gathered his senior ministers in Downing Street today 
  • Expected to remove Mark Spencer as Tory chief whip after dismal performance
  • Spencer expected to become Commons leader in place of Jacob Rees-Mogg

Boris Johnson will face his Cabinet today ahead of a mini-reshuffle designed to clear the decks amid fallout from Partygate that is battering the Tories in the polls. 

The Prime Minister gathered his senior ministers in Downing Street as a new poll shows Labour opening up a 10-point lead as No10 remains bedded down in sleaze.

Mr Johnson is expected to finally remove Mark Spencer as Tory chief whip after a dismal few months of repeated backbench rebellions over a wide variety of issues.

The Sherwood MP is expected to become Commons leader, freeing up Jacob Rees-Mogg to take on a beefier policy-related role, possibly as a Brexit minister. 

The poll by Redfield and Wilton Strategies, carried out yesterday, put Labour on 42 per cent, up 2 per cent, with the Tories down 1 per cent on 23 per cent.

It came as Mr Johnson found himself embroiled in a new row over comments he made about Sir Keir Starmer and the late child sex attacker Jimmy Savile. 

The Prime Minister gathered his senior ministers in Downing Street as a new poll shows Labour opening up a 10-point lead as No10 remains bedded down in sleaze.

Mr Johnson is expected to finally remove Mark Spencer as Tory chief whip after a dismal few months of repeated backbench rebellions over a wide variety of issues.


The Sherwood MP is expected to become Commons leader, freeing up Jacob Rees-Mogg (left) to take on a beefier policy-related role, possibly as a Brexit minister.

Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan arrives at Downing Street

Secretary of State for Justice Dominic Raab arrives at Downing Street

The PM is refusing to apologise following dramatic scenes of Sir Keir being surrounded and abused at as he walked in Westminster after leaving New Scotland Yard shortly before 5pm.

Police shielded him and led him to a marked car as the protesters continued to swarm around him him shouting about Savile, hurling baseless allegations about him ‘protecting paedophiles’ and also branding him a ‘traitor’.

The protesters, who included anti-vaccine activist Piers Corbyn, had descended on London yesterday in support of Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ of truck drivers in Ottawa. Scotland Yard later said two arrests were made after Sir Keir was escorted to safety.

MailOnline understands the Parliamentary authorities are now urgently looking into how the situation was allowed to spiral – with questions over why Sir Keir was escorted through the mob rather than taken to safety, and why he had not been driven from inside the secure estate.

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