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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

FOUND: Lawmaker in uk pm johnson s party defects to opposition | Mind Blowing Facts

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson attending Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons in London on January 12, 2022. (UK Parliament/AFP)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defied calls to resign in a feisty performance Wednesday in Parliament — but it may be too little to prevent a push by his Conservative Party's lawmakers to oust him over a series of lockdown-flouting government parties.

Pressure on the prime minister grew as one Conservative lawmaker defected to the opposition Labor Party and a former Conservative Cabinet Minister told him: “In the name of God, go!”

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