Following Boris Johnson's confidence vote win - how does the Conservative party go forward? Two former Downing Street advisors Phillip_Blond and CamCavendish discuss what happens next over lunch 🥙 Newsnight
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has won the backing of a majority of Tory MPs in a confidence vote despite a significant revolt against his leadership.
The vote share in support of Mr Johnson was lower than the 63% received by former Prime Minister Theresa May when she won a party confidence vote in 2018, before resigning six months later over a Brexit deadlock.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said a "divided" Conservative Party was "propping up" Mr Johnson after he survived the confidence vote.
The ballot was triggered by Conservative MPs after at least 15% of them wrote letters of no confidence to Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the party's backbench 1922 Committee. Some Tory MPs have also expressed dissent over tax rises, the government's response to rising living costs and its policy direction.The first rule of politics: learn how to count. Mathematically, Boris Johnson was the winner in Monday's confidence vote.
The next tests for Mr Johnson are by-elections held in Wakefield and in Tiverton & Honiton on the same day this month following the resignation of two Tory MPs.The Tory rebels who voted against Mr Johnson were insistent that the result had compromised the prime minister's ability to lead. Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi, who said he would back Mr Johnson before the vote, said the PM won "handsomely". "I hope we can draw a line under this issue," he said.
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