Even the PM’s allies concede it’s ‘the beginning of the end’ after 40% of MPs decline to support leader
Tory rebels have vowed to keep trying to force Boris Johnson from office, as the prime minister’s allies admitted he was reaching “the beginning of the end” after a devastating result inJohnson’s struggle to hold his divided party together will become more intense, with some of the 148 MPs, or 40%, who voted against him said to be “implacably opposed” to his premiership.
Though the majority of Tory MPs supported the prime minister, a significant number voted to oust him in the secret ballot held by the 1922 Committee. The result had echoes of, when Theresa May won the support of two-thirds of her party but was left irrevocably damaged.Government sources insisted the margin of Johnson’s victory did not matter, with one cabinet minister saying “a win is a win”. They said that given the result, the rebels needed to either “change the rules or shut the fuck up”.
Another move advocated by senior Tories was to withdraw the Conservative whip from half a dozen “diehard” rebels accused of undermining Johnson and driving the campaign to oust him. The idea was said to be supported by key figures in the Johnson “support group”, made up of his most trusted colleagues.
Despite party rules now giving Johnson a reprieve from facing another confidence vote for 12 months, his detractors are likely to push for this to be halved to pile further pressure on him to quit.this month would help convince more colleagues that Johnson has become an electoral liability who will lead the party to defeat at the next general election.
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