The British PM lives to fight another day, but his victory did not look big enough to reassert his authority over a restive party.
| Prime Minister Boris Johnson has survived a no-confidence vote in his leadership by his MPs, but a major rebellion means he is unlikely to have put a lid on simmering discontent in Conservative Party ranks.
another day, and under Conservative Party rules he cannot be challenged in this way again for 12 months.But after 41 per cent of his troops voted against him, which was more than many MPs and pundits were expecting, his authority will still be in question. “Three of them won, but two of those were gone within a year and the third got hammered at the subsequent general election. So the omens of him surviving and winning again are not good.”‘Partygate’ has drained Mr Johnson’s support in opinion polls, but no standout challenger to his leadership has emerged to rally the rebels and swell their numbers into a majority.
“It’s a ballot. Fifty plus one is a majority. Boris did much better than that. We draw a line and move on,” Mr Zahawi told Sky News.