Rare applause in the Commons as MP calls Johnson to quit

Conservative MP Gary Sambrook wins spontaneous applause during Prime Minister's Questions when he calls on Boris Johnson to "take responsibility and resign."

He called the Prime Minister out for blaming other MPs at the event at the Carlton Club event, saying that they should have stopped Chris Pincher from drinking too much.

Elected in 2019, Mr Sambrook is a member of the influential backbench 1922 committee.

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[UcheEke]

He points to the opposition remarking on how he knows "why they want me out", but the call came from behind him, from his own benches! Sociopaths won't resign, because sociopaths are devoid of shame or morals. The 'decent' thing is never on their "to-do" list unless it directly and positively benefits them.

[freakin]

Narcissists never admit they are wrong. It’s always someone else’s fault.

[mattstevenson]

Clapping is banned, but laughing, cheering and jeering is perfectly fine...what a f'n joke.

[nearlyaverage]

I love how clapping is considered awful behaviour, but the vacuum cleaner noise they make instead is considered fine

[chrisparti]

So clapping someone in a positive way is frowned upon, but jeering, shouting and braying is OK?? WTF

[annes]

Boris is absolutely delusional 🙄 🤦🏾‍♀️

[ThymeTwister]

Yeah... the system truly is broken.
Even if Johnson is forced out, the system that put him where he is remains. It will do so again, if not with him then with some other slimy individual.

It's time to leave Westminster. This requires constitutional change and no less.

[benewgillian]

We will need to remove the lying crook by force if he still doesn't want to go ...

[cookerobturnerxG]

I have always wondered what would happen if people clapped.

[freddiejohnson]

He is basically saying "I can do whatever I want and people will still vote for me no matter how much they complain."

[Jwmt]

Has there ever been a weaker speaker than Sir Lindsay Hoyle?
More concerned about MP's clapping than actually ensuring that questions are properly answered, that MP's who have clearly misled parliament are held to account. A robot could do a better job at this point.

[Mircose]

they should get rid of this rubbish speaker, he's got to be the weakest speaker we ever had.

[ayofatai]

He has a mentor.
Trump didn't want to leave office after the US voted him out.
When a system becomes so much acceptable, too comfortable and without giving room for critical /objective minds/opinions then the result is, what we see in our democratic words.

[michaelflinn]

Another bombastic Boris show. God he's a horrid creep

[nodtripRS]

A very simple reason they want me out. Useless springs to mind.

[bobbybawbager]

Boris has been drowning in his own lies for so long he must have Evolved Gills at this point!! 🙄

[Mufcforever-slgf]

Top 5 Most punchable people in Britain right there

[queersnowflake]

Come. Down, let people clap jesus, so uptight 😂

[thedailyjab]

He's right ...this isn't a debating society....it's a circus...

[cupguin]

So we're not going to address that Boris is blaming the people who didn't stop Pincher from drinking? He put the man in the whip's office! I don't even remember what the current line is from no 10 but for a while the excuse was Boris couldn't be bothered to remember what Pincher's done because apparently it wasn't that big a deal in his mind.

Am I the only person who feels like they're going slightly round the bend?