The Prime Minister is facing questions from his own back benchers over the Partygate affair - with calls growing from within the Conservative Party for Boris Johnson to resign.

It would take 54 letters of no confidence from Tory MPs to trigger a leadership vote. At the time of writing 28 MPs are calling for the increasingly beleaguered PM to resign - more than half the required number.

It is understood that there are at least 11 more Conservative MPs that are critical of their leader - including North East Hertfordshire parliamentarian Sir Oliver Heald over in nearby Letchworth and surrounding areas. It is also believed that at least another two Tory MP have expressed dissatisfaction - bringing the total of disaffected Conservative MPs to 42 - only 12 short of the number required to force a vote.

However, despite Hitchin Nub News reaching out to our town's MP Bim Afolami, there has still been no official comment on his stance regarding the disgraced PM.

Calls for the PM to resign are increasing despite his insistence that he did not breach the ministerial code - even though he was fined by police for attending a No10 party in lockdown - with the government's ethics chief reportedly threatening to quit over the scandal.

With Nub News already the country's fifth biggest local news publisher, some of our sister sites are reporting the opinions of their MPs, regardless of their Parliamentarian's party.

Over at Twickenham Nub News, Munira Wilson MP, and Richmond Nub News' MP, Sarah Olney, insist that important issues are being sidelined by a government that is concentrating all its efforts on keeping Johnson in power - calling Johnson an 'absolute disaster'.

Hitchin Nub News will bring you the latest from Bim Afolami MP as and when we have it.

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