Brian Whittle MSP issued the comment below following the latest developments on the parties in Downing Street during lockdown.
“Vladimir Putin’s brutal assault on Ukraine has rightly been the focus of the UK Government in recent weeks. However, the seriousness of the actions Boris Johnson and others in Downing Street during lockdown hasn’t diminished.
When news of the lockdown parties first emerged, I said that the Prime Minister should hold himself accountable and resign. My view on that hasn’t changed.
Here in Scotland Boris Johnson’s actions have made it far too easy for the SNP and the Greens to conceal behind a mask of outrage their own failures in government, from the crisis in the NHS to the hundreds of millions wasted on botched ferry deals.
Leadership without accountability is no leadership at all. Boris Johnson should step down and allow a leadership election to take place by the end of the summer so we can put this issue to rest and move on.”
