POLL: Is Rishi Sunak weak for abstaining from Partygate lies vote

20 June 2023 , 10:00

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has come under fire for not showing up to vote on the scathing Partygate lies report. (Image: AP/Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/Getty Images)

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been branded weak for not showing up to vote on the Partygate lies report - but do you agree?

The PM instead went off to a charity dinner rather than show leadership and condemn Boris Johnson for lying over the lockdown get-togethers - first exposed by the Mirror in 2021.

Sunak’s spokesperson said he was not planning to attend parliament on Monday over 'commitments that he can’t move'.

But opposition MPs were less than impressed at the no-show, with Shadow Commons Leader Thangam Debonnaire saying: “(Rishi) has shown he is too weak to stand up to Boris Johnson and his sycophants, which is profoundly dangerous because if we can’t have a Prime Minister that stands up for ­standards what have we got?”

“If the Prime Minister can’t even show leadership when it comes to holding liars to account, how can he expect the people of this country to trust him on anything?”

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Meanwhile, Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting simply tweeted: 'WEAK'.

The political career of former PM Bojo ­ended on a pathetic whimper after the Commons agreed with the committee’s findings that he deliberately misled the House over Westminster boozy get-togethers.

So what do YOU think?

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Paul Speed