Perhaps fearing the long arm of the law, old-Etonian Boris Johnson faces a Tory uprising as 50 MPs join new resistance group. The embattled public schoolboy faces another Tory uprising as 50 MPs join a new resistance group calling for an end to coronavirus lockdown measures.

Last week, the Prime Minister imposed a second national lockdown, set to last until December 2, although critics have raised concerns the restrictions could be extended.

Now, 50 Tory MPs have joined an anti-lockdown group known as the ‘Covid Recovery Group’ in an attempt to fight against any Government plans to extend the lockdown. Led by Mark Harper and former Brexit minister Steve Baker, the group will demand a full cost-benefit analysis of lockdown restrictions based on a regional basis.

Mr Harper said: ‘The country is badly in need of a different and enduring strategy for living with the virus that doesn’t require us to keep living under a series of damaging lockdowns and seemingly arbitrary restrictions. Lockdowns and restrictions cause immense economic, social and non-Covid health damage.

‘At the moment, the cure we’re prescribing is far worse than the disease, and it’s important that we base all our decision as a country on informed scientific, economic and health data.’

A further 45 MPs are reportedly considering joining the group, which has its own WhatsApp group. Those already in the group include the likes of William Wragg, Sir Robert Syms, Dr Ben Spencer, Harriet Baldwin and Nus Ghani.Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Tory backbench group The 1922 Committee, as well as Chris Green and Adam Afriyie, are also part of the group, according to The Telegraph.

The new lockdown was imposed after Government-appointed ‘on-message’ scientists claimed deaths could rise to 4,000 a day, four times the peak in April. No heed is paid by most parliamentarians and press that these figures are constantly exposed as baseless or bogus. The figures have been widely discredited and the graphs have been changed, bringing the predicted figures lower than expected.

Just days after Sir Patrick Vallance presented a ‘very grim picture’ in the fight against the virus, the Government Office for Science corrected two of the slides. Source