Boris wins confidence vote

The way I see it, nobody 'wins' a confidence vote - although they may survive it. The fact that there's been one in the first place is deeply damaging. It highlights the serious division in the party, hopefully the beginning of the end.

I agree with HousePlantQueen and Riverwalk.

Politically, this is a great result for Labour but I dread to think what more damage this mob can do to the country. I hope the rebel Conservatives have really grown enough backbone to vote down some of the more extreme measures in Parliament.

The nation has more important things than allowing the MSM and the Remain elite to manipulate them, destroy the government and return us to the EU, which is what this is all about.

What absolute pure and unadulterated b***x!

Did you get that in a text from Doug?

And Hunt?
Best way to guarantee a Tory defeat in 2024.

Boris likes his booze doesn’t he?
Here’s some more.

Boris has made a similar to mistake to Henry VIII.
Henry regretted killing Cromwell.

Boris should have kept his Cromwell, Cummings.

Seems the confidence vote was called too quickly in my opinion. Febrile MPs in a flurry, supporting Hunt. They will be kicking this elves tomorrow morning as Boris is safe for another year.

The nation has more important things than allowing the MSM and the Remain elite to manipulate them, destroy the government and return us to the EU, which is what this is all about.

Naive MPs are being manipulated by the same forces that have been against us since 2016.

Sorry , missed most of the coverage as I had to go get a bucket after Nadine Dorries’ nauseous sucking up. ?

The Sun has the best headline tomorrow, made me laugh.

Night of the blond knives.

Whitewavemark2

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.

No, it couldn't, especially with the byelections still to come. Although I have to admit I thought it would be better if the vote came after them. But then, no one expected such a high vote against him.

I do wish they had held off until the by elections on 23 June. The results will surely prove to be humiliating to the Conservatives and might have helped at focus a few more minds into the way their best interests lie - seeing as that, rather than what is right- appears to be the focus of the majority of their MPs at the moment.

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.

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'.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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?

The spin about 2019 vote - total fiction!

He’s still lying!

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

None of it true.

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.

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.

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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.