BORIS Johnson has been booed upon arrival at St Paul's for the Jubilee service.
Members of the crowd jeered at the Prime Minister and his wife Carrie as they got out of their car and walked up the steps of the Cathedral for the National Thanksgiving Service.
The Prime Minister @BorisJohnson arriving with wife Carrie at St Paul’s Cathedral for the Platinum Thanksgiving Service is booed by some in the crowd@BBCNews pic.twitter.com/rHbBgX8Jzh
— Victoria Derbyshire (@vicderbyshire) June 3, 2022
The Duke of Rothesay is set to represent his mother at the service after the 96-year-old monarch pulled out of the high-profile occasion in London.
She suffered “discomfort” following the first day of Jubilee events, which included a balcony appearance and a beacon lighting.
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The Queen will be watching the ceremony on television on Friday as she rests at Windsor Castle.
Tributes will be paid to the Queen’s “70 years of faithful and dedicated service” as 2000 people including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Cabinet ministers, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and former prime ministers fill the historic church.
The booing of Johnson comes as a number of Tory MPs demand his resignation in the wake of the damning publication of the Sue Gray report.
So far, more than 25 MPs have publicly called on the Prime Minister to stand down – although not all of them have said whether they have written to Sir Graham Brady.
No Scottish Conservative MP has called for Johnson to go, although West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine's Andrew Bowie did publicly question the Prime Minister's position this week.
The party's leader Douglas Ross continues to argue that the war in Ukraine is more pressing, and that a leadership election should not take place while it is ongoing.
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