CONSERVATIVE councillors walked out of a Crawley Borough Council meeting after the leader started criticising Boris Johnson.

During the full council meeting on Wednesday (July 20), Labour’s Michael Jones tabled a notice of motion to ‘restore decency in public life’.

Many of the Tories left after Mr Jones started laying into the soon-to-be-gone Prime Minister, saying it was ‘shocking’ that ‘someone so vastly discredited should be tolerated to stay on’.

He added: “We’ve put this [motion] forward because we thought that local people would want their local representatives to say something about it.”

The motion itself called on Mr Johnson to resign as Prime Minister.

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By the time it was carried, Mr Jones was only talking to himself and his fellow Labour councillors as the Conservative cohort had left the room.

The major issue for the Tories was that a vote on the motion was called for before it had even been debated – an unusual situation at any council meeting.

This led to an objection from leader Duncan Crow, who called the situation ‘unreasonable’, followed by the rather strange sight of councillors voting on whether or not to vote on the motion.

When that vote was agreed, Mr Crow and the rest of his team also left the room – to much taunting from the Labour group.

For what it was worth, the motion was, of course, carried.