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Green Party calls on Alok Sharma to do the right thing over Partygate

Local Green Party councillor Jamie Whitham has issued a public challenge to Reading West MP Alok Sharma

Local Green Party councillor Jamie Whitham has issued a public challenge to Reading West MP Alok Sharma over his stance on the Partygate scandal.

With Boris Johnson being accused of lying to Parliament over parties held in No.10 Downing Street while the country was in lockdown, the Green Party has said that it is past time for the Prime Minister to resign.

The Green Party’s Jamie Whitham said, “Boris Johnson’s desperate attempts to cling onto power are making a mockery of our democracy. The vast majority of people now think he should resign because of his shameful behaviour, and yet our local MP Alok Sharma has been curiously silent on the matter. The voters of Reading deserve to know what Mr Sharma thinks of the Prime Minister’s behaviour.

“Boris Johnson’s failure of leadership is not only damaging trust in public health measures, but he is also allowing other very urgent issues that are spiralling out of control, including the cost of living, potential war in Ukraine, and the climate crisis to be neglected.

“For the good of the country Johnson must go, and I find it deeply worrying that Mr Sharma appears to be placing a misguided party loyalty ahead of the interests of Reading and the nation.”

But the Green Party also warned that replacing Boris Johnson with another untrustworthy MP as Prime Minister would not solve the problem. Cllr Whitham said,

“We should be under no illusion that just getting rid of Boris Johnson will fix the culture of hypocrisy and entitlement that has taken hold in our political system. I am worried that we will end up with one charlatan replacing another.

“Whoever is our next Prime Minister should be subject to rigorous scrutiny. They should not, like Boris Johnson and his colleagues, apparently see no problem in lying to the public and to other MPs.”

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For more information contact Green group leader and councillor Rob White: rob@readinggreenparty.org.uk