In Britain, we don’t like to use the word ‘corruption’ unless we’re talking about other countries.
But when senior backbench Tory MP William Wragg claimed in Parliament yesterday that Boris Johnson’s team had been threatening and blackmailing his colleagues into supporting the PM, corruption is what he was describing.
Conservative whips warned MPs that their constituencies would lose government funds if they were “disloyal” to Johnson, said Wragg, the vice-chair of the Conservatives’ 1922 Committee. Johnson claims he has “seen no evidence” that this is happening. If true, though, it would mean taxpayers’ money is being used for partisan gain.
