Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross has said Boris Johnson should “of course” quit if he is found to have breached the ministerial code of conduct.
He made the statement as pressure mounts on the Prime Minister over who paid for the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat.
Lord Geidt, a crossbench peer who was the Queen’s private secretary, has been tasked with investigating the renovation of the No 11 residence.
Johnson eventually paid for the revamp himself, but questions remain over whether Tory donors initially contributed to the bill.
Ross, an MP who is standing for Holyrood, previously called for Nicola Sturgeon to quit over her Government’s botched investigation into Alex Salmond.
During a BBC interview, Ross was asked if Johnson should resign if it turns out he broke the code.
He said: “Nicola Sturgeon was found to have misled MSPs in Parliament by a cross-party committee of MSPs, but I think as your earlier commentator said there are currently three investigations underway in terms of what the Prime Minister has done, and issues around that, and I think it’s right we look to have serious questions answered on all of those points.”
Asked the same question, he said: “Of course. I think people expect the highest standards of those in the highest office of the land, and that’s why I think people are looking at the investigations that are currently ongoing and waiting for the answers.”
Meanwhile, Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said there did not need to be an inquiry into who paid for the renovations of the Prime Minister’s flat for people to know Boris Johnson was “withholding information” from the public.
She told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday: “It’s appalling we are in a position where he won’t come clean about who loaned him money or gave him money, and what favours or promises may have been given in return.
“We already know that this is a Prime Minister who frankly thinks that the rules don’t apply to him and his friends. He is quite happy for his cabinet ministers to break the ministerial code and then not resign, he is quite happy for his advisers to drive around the country with Covid in the middle of lockdown and not resign.
“I think people are angry, actually, that in a year when we have all followed the rules, often at great personal cost, we have followed the rules because we know that the rules matter, and yet over and over again we have seen a Prime Minister who seems to think that the rules don’t apply to him.”
When asked if it was “fair” to compare people not attending funerals to a flat refurbishment, Nandy said: “It is absolutely fair because it is a pattern of behaviour from this Prime Minister.”
