Boris wins confidence vote

Also means that nearly 60% voted for him.

Probably stuck with him for another year!

He can’t survive this. If he had any pride he would leave now, but he hasn’t, so he won’t.

It couldn’t have been a better result for the opposition.

A totally wounded prime minister who leads a party that will undoubtedly now be at war and it will only be a few months after the by elections and standards committee that there will be another vote.

Hmm, Thatcher and May resigned after much less of a drubbing- eventually. He is besmirching the Tory Party the longer he hangs on. And I'm not a Tory voter.

Bugger!

The year is not written in tablets of stone. Brady has indicated that.

He should resign ASAP

41% of his MPs don’t want him as their leader and still he stays….. ?

Wonder what Smogg will say????

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Rory Stewart
@RoryStewartUK
Remove the “payroll” vote - and look at the free vote from backbenchers. Almost 75% of all Tory MPs not dependent on his patronage voted against him. This is the end for Boris Johnson. The only question is how long the agony is prolonged.

Professor Vernon Bogdanor Research Professor at the Centre for British Politics and Government - Kings College London interviewed on Sky earlier this everning said the 1922 Committee can change the rules to have another vote within a year. If they think Johnson has and is damaging the party so much that they will lose the next election they can move again to try to get rid of him.

I had to look up just how many people are classed as "payroll" vote. This:

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/payroll-vote

The current payroll vote is between 160 and 170 MPs, consisting of:

95 ministers (including whips) in the House of Commons
47 parliamentary private secretaries (assuming all those who also serve on the Privileges Committee have resigned their PPS role to be able to investigate the prime minister)
20 Conservative MP trade envoys
an unknown number of party vice-chairs.

Explains why John Lamont -Truss's PPS resigned earlier today.

Watching Johnson’s reaction. Dear oh dear same old same old.

None of it true.

He’s still lying!

The spin about 2019 vote - total fiction!

He is spinning this as a victory better than the 2019 leadership contest. But he was only competing with himself this evening! Now he says the party is going to unite. How when 148 of your MPs do not have confidence in you?

Nadhim Zadawi says “the PM won handsomely” What planet is he on? And how can those who voted in Johnson’s favour even look at themselves in the mirror without cringing? I used to vote Conservative, left the country at the last election to avoid the choice between Corbin and Johnson but they have totally lost me for the foreseeable future.

What is also clear is that the backbenchers did not just vote against partygate but they are very unhappy about some of Johnson’s policies, like Rwanda, NI protocol, imperial measurements and tax.

There’s speculation that up to five members of the cabinet also voted against him.

Frankly, as far as I am concerned, this is a good result. It has split the party, Johnson and his pathetic supporters are a busted flush. How do the families of these cabinet members look at their parent/spouse?

Does anyone else find this desk banging really pathetic? I do think government needs to be dragged into the modern age.

It's good news for Labour but bad news for the country.

It will be death by a thousand cuts and we can look forward to months of Tory internecine strife - don't know if I can bear it!

Even the Daily Mail describes Johnson as 'clinging on'.

Johnson called the result ‘convincing’, ‘decisive’ and said the government can now ‘move on’.

... Theresa May thought similar, until she had to resign six months later.

And, as expected, we were told again by Johnson what the British people want...

Call an election, and let us tell you what we want. I will not be told (as we are being as well as the government) to "move on".

I think he also mentioned he wanted to concentrate on "stuff"... whatever that means.

Any PM with an ounce of integrity and the ability for self-reflection, would resign. But as he allegedly said, it will take a flame thrower to unseat him. He is determined to cling on to power at any cost to the nation. I hope his ultimate fall from grace will be hard.