Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has survived a motion of no confidence.
According to Graham Brady, chairman of the party committee that conducted the voting, Boris Johnson received 211 votes to 148 votes.
Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, survived a confidence vote on Monday, but his authority was severely harmed by a mutiny by 148 of his 359 Conservative Party legislators.
For Johnson to be removed, a majority of Conservative legislators — at least 180 – would have to vote against him.
Johnson received 59 percent of his parliamentarians' support, which is lower than the support provided to his predecessor Theresa May in a confidence vote in 2018.
Having scored a sweeping election victory in 2019, the prime minister has been under mounting pressure after he and staff held alcohol-fuelled parties in his Downing Street office and residence when Britain was under strict COVID-19 lockdowns.
Such is the anger that the party triggered a challenge, forcing an anonymous vote of confidence in a leader who had once seemed unassailable.
The move led to lawmakers from different wings of the party revealing that they had turned against their leader. One former ally accused the prime minister of insulting both the electorate and the party by staying in power.
“You have presided over a culture of casual law-breaking at 10 Downing Street in relation to COVID,” Jesse Norman, a former junior minister, said before the vote.
Johnson’s anti-corruption chief John Penrose also quit.
Dozens of Conservative lawmakers have voiced concern that Johnson, 57, could be losing his authority to govern Britain, which is facing the risk of recession, rising fuel and food prices and strike-inflicted travel chaos in the capital London.
But his cabinet of leading ministers rallied around him and highlighted what they said were the successes of the government: a quick rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations and Britain’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In the hours before the ballot, Johnson told his party’s lawmakers he would shore up the economy and return to traditional Conservative policies such as cutting taxes.
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