Boris Johnson says no-confidence vote win ‘decisive’ despite mass Tory rebellion
Boris Johnson was branded a “lame duck” prime minister as he faced MPs in the Commons for the first time since suffering a damaging result in Monday night’s confidence vote on his leadership.
SNP leader Ian Blackford launched a blistering attack on Mr Johnson’s position at PMQs, likening the prime minister to Monty Python’s Black Knight, who claimed fatal wounds were just flesh wounds, and told him: “It’s over, it’s done.”
It transpired that 41 per cent of Tory backbenchers had agreed with his repeated calls for the prime minister to quit, the SNP MP claimed.
But Mr Johnson dismissed the rebels, saying he had “picked up political opponents all over” because his government had “done some very big and very remarkable things which they didn’t necessarily approve of”.
Promising new measures on home ownership and defending NHS waiting times from attacks by Sir Keir Starmer, the PM insisted he would fight to stay in power, and joked that his political career had “barely begun”.
