Shut up and go away...

Tory MPs' fury as quitter Johnson fuels more chaos

- BEN GLAZE

FURIOUS Tories rounded on Boris Johnson yesterday, telling him to shut up and go away, and accusing him of a damaging mutiny.

It came after it was revealed eight names on the ex-PM's resignation honours list were said to have been rejected by the Lords' vetting committee on the grounds of propriety.

Johnson had skulked out of Parliament before a report into whether he lied to the Commons is published.

He was allowed a preview of the Partygate report and promptly quit his seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

Former Education Minister Tim Loughton yesterday told Times Radio: "My hope for the future of Boris Johnson is that he will shut up and go away, and let us get on with the business of running the country.

"His sad demise was brought about entirely at his own doing, frankly - and he decided unilaterally to leave Parliament before the report on him has been published.

"Boris, thank you very much for your service. Now just keep quiet and let the grown-ups in government, who want to do government, get on with that job."