BORIS Johnson has won a vote of no confidence, but 41 per cent of his MPs voted against him.
The Prime Minister needed 180 votes to survive, in the end, he received 211.
However, 148 of his own MPs said they did not have confidence in him, far more than the 133 MPs who voted against Theresa May in 2018. She was only able to cling on for six more months.
Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi said he hoped the result would “draw a line on this now.”
“It’s a ballot. Fifty plus one is a majority. Boris did much better than that.”
“Does the parliamentary party say ‘right, OK, we’ve had the confidence vote, is it now time to move on, get behind the prime minister?’
“Or will there be a temptation to have a rolling maul, a guerrilla war, for the next six, 12, 18, 24 months?”
Under the rules of the 1922 committee, the result means that Mr Johnson will be safe from another confidence vote until 2023.
However, any respite for the Prime Minister could be short lived. There are two challenging by-elections on 23 June.
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