Boris Johnson tells Tory plotters: Stop focusing on things I’m meant to have stuffed up

"What’s driving people nuts is this endless churn of stuff about things that I’m meant to have stuffed up or whatever about my colleagues, their views of me, my character, the leadership, Tory blah blah…”

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the ‘endless churn’ of discussion about his own record and leadership is ‘driving people nuts’ (Dan Kitwood/PA)

Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs plotting to oust him not to focus on the issues he has “stuffed up” after his authority was diminished by a double by-election defeat.

The British Prime Minister insisted questions over his leadership were now settled after the loss of Wakefield and former stronghold Tiverton and Honiton triggered a Cabinet resignation.