Robert Largan previously stated that he would not ‘defend the indefensible’ regarding the Prime Minister’s behaviour in Downing Street during lockdown. 

The Prime Minister has a privileged position of leadership and responsibility, but his behaviour showed there is one rule for us and another for him. The Met Police imposed 126 fines, including one on Boris Johnson, who broke the law that he himself announced to the country.  The Sue Gray report concludes there was ‘a failure of leadership’ and cites multiple examples of poor treatment of cleaning and security staff. Millions of workers stuck to the rules that Boris Johnson made but which he would not keep to. He has stated that he accepts responsibility for ‘the totality of what happened’ – does that not mean he should resign? 

Us and them - under this government the rich have got richer while numbers of those in food and fuel poverty have soared. Waiting lists for social housing get longer and longer.  Families anxiously waiting for news of government support in the face of astronomical increases in energy prices had to wait – the announcement of the support package was cynically timed to deflect attention from the publication of the report that exposed the goings on in Downing Street.

We, the undersigned, therefore demand that High Peak MP Robert Largan sticks to his word, does not defend the indefensible, joins with those MPs who have stood up for truth and decency, and calls for the Prime Minister to resign.