Reuters is facing plans to launch a leadership challenge to UK Prime Minister Johnson

LONDON (Reuters) – UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting to strengthen his prime minister on Wednesday after a riot by some lawmakers angry with some Downing Street blockade parties.

Driven to the top job of “carrying out Brexit,” Johnson won a major majority in his party in 2019 for more than 30 years, but now has to call for resignations following several rallies during the Downing Street blockade of COVID.

Johnson has repeatedly apologized for the reunions and said he was unaware of many of the events, even though he went to what he thought was a May 20, 2020 work event.

To launch the leadership challenge, 54 of the 360 ​​Conservative MPs in parliament must write letters of confidence to the party’s 1922 committee chairman.

The 20 Conservative MPs who won their seats in the last general election in 2019 plan to send letters of no confidence to Johnson, the Telegraph reported.

“The 2019 parliamentary group is launching a competition to try to reach the 54th letter submission deadline,” said BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg. “They can go to 54.”

An analysis by The Times showed that 58 Conservative MPs criticized the Prime Minister.

The letters are confidential, so the president is the only one who knows how many lawyers actually wrote them.

Johnson will speak to parliament on Wednesday as his Cabinet hopes to approve plans to end the latest austerity measures imposed in England to deal with the deployment of COVID-19.

The “Plan B” measures were introduced by the government last month, when the Omicron strain spread rapidly across Britain. Instructions for working from home as much as possible, including masks for indoor settings and vaccination passports for mass events.