Johnson struggles to rally team as pressure on him builds up

Sajid Javid has joined Rishi Sunak in rejecting slur on Keir Starmer and another MP has called for PM to goBoris Johnson’s attempts to rally his dilapidated top team floundered on Friday after a second cabinet minister distanced himself from the prime minister and another Conservative MP called for him to go. In a bid to shore up support, Johnson wrote to MPs promising them a “direct line to Downing Street”, but his move came as Sajid Javid followed the chancellor, Rishi Sunak,