The MPs in Richmond and Twickenham have stepped up demands for 'absolute disaster' Boris Johnson to go.

The two Lib-Dems were prominent in the recent local council elections which saw the Conservatives all but wiped out across the borough.

The last remaining Conservative on the council, Geoffrey Samuel, told Nub News that the attempted cover-up of law-breaking in Downing Street by Boris Johnson and others was to blame for the party's collapse locally.

The Richmond Park MP, Sarah Olney, and Twickenham MP, Munira Wilson, insist that important issues are being sidelined by a government that is concentrating all its efforts on keeping Johnson in power.

Sarah Olney said: "His leadership has been an absolute disaster for this country.

"His self-indulgence and refusal to resign has hampered our ability to address the cost of living crisis and climate change. The longer he stays in post, the people of Britain suffer."

She said it may be that the longer Johnson stays in power the better it is for the Lib-Dems in winnable seats in the south of England. A number of Conservative MPs with small majorities in London and the South have signalled they have no confidence in the Prime Minister.

However, the MP said: "As a constituency MP I find it incredibly depressing. We have such poor governance and government in this country at the moment and it is creating real problems for my constituents.

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"We urgently need someone who is going to get a grip and focus on the real problems of the country.

"I find it incredibly self-indulgent. It is all about keeping Boris Johnson in post. He is a disastrous Prime Minister. He needs to go and we really need to get on with the job of tackling the cost of living crisis, thinking about climate change, supporting Ukraine.

"We really can't that as long as Boris Johnson is Prime Minister."

Munira Wilson said she has been contacted by dozens of local people to voice their hurt and anger about the situation at the heart of the government.

She said she was 'enraged' by the revelations of repeated law-breaking parties and the subsequent attempts by Johnson to brush them aside.

The MP said: "His initial apology was followed by a litany of excuses, not least about allowing very hard-working staff being allowed to let their hair down. He later excused the parties on the basis that he and others wanted to say goodbye to valued colleagues.

"I know from my inbox that there were nurses also working extremely long hours at West Middlesex hospital, witnessing deaths every day, struggling to cope. They drank wine too – but alone, and at home. I know that many of you were not able to say goodbye to loved ones who were dying or who had died.

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"Whatever your political views – and even if you felt the rule-breaking was minor in the grand scheme of things – for me it is the complete lack of contrition shown by the Prime Minister, and the endless cover-ups over the past five months, that are so damaging to our democracy.

"At a time of a cost of living crisis at home and a war in Europe, we need leaders we can trust to take difficult and painful decisions, knowing they are acting in our best interests. That's why Boris Johnson has to go – or his MPs must remove him from office."

She added: "As the Archbishop of Canterbury tweeted: 'Standards in public life are the glue that hold us together – we need to rediscover them and abide by them'."