Jubilee over, Conservatives rush to push Boris Johnson out | Rob Harris
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a vote on the future of his leadership on Monday, amid growing backlash from his colleagues over the so-called partygate scandal, a cost-of-living crisis and a controversial immigration policy.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson holding a press conference last month in response to the publication of the Sue Gray report Into “Partygate”.A vote will be held between 6pm and 8pm, London time and the ballots counted immediately afterwards. His government has been mired in scandal since January following the revelation of several private gatherings in Downing Street which attracted 126 fines from police over breached coronavirus restrictions, and a highly critical report by senior civil servant Sue Gray in which she questioned his leadership.While rebels are confident that they had the 54 letters needed to trigger a vote of confidence, they fear they do not have the 180 votes required in the ballot of Conservative MPs to oust him.
The memo said: “The damage done to trust in Boris Johnson is such that popular policies are falling flat with the public .On Monday, former Treasury minister Jesse Norman announced he had withdrawn his support from Johnson and submitted a letter.