Boris Johnson says no-confidence vote win ‘decisive’ despite mass Tory rebellion
Boris Johnson’s position is “unsustainable” after he scraped through a confidence vote with over 40 per cent of MPs attempting to remove him, William Hague has said.
The former Conservative leader said the prime minister experienced a “greater level of rejection” than any of his predecessors had “endured and survived”, including Theresa May in 2018.
The prime minister’s former adviser Will Walden also said the result is “the worst possible short of losing”, adding that Boris Johnson would be “very worried deep down.”
Boris Johnson is set to meet his cabinet today as he aims to “move on” from the bruising vote of confidence amid mass Tory rebellion against him.
The prime minister insisted he secured a “decisive” victory even as 148 of his own MPs voted to oust him.
Labour leader Keir Starmer said the British public was “fed up” with a prime minister who had “presided over a culture of lies and law-breaking in parliament”.
