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The collapse: how Red Wall MPs turned on Boris

The Red Wall is crumbling

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

On Tuesday night, Boris Johnson loyalists were desperately trying to halt a spate of letters of no confidence going to Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 committee of backbenchers. They had thought there was plenty of time, that no MPs would move until Sue Gray’s report into the ‘partygate’ scandal was published.

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