INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday survived a vote of no confidence from his own Conservative MPs, after a string of scandals
events at Downing Street, which saw him become the first serving UK prime minister to have broken the law, has still severely weakened his
the 359 sitting Conservatives in parliament.Defeat would have meant an end to his time as party leader and prime minister until a
replacement was found in an internal leadership contest.In previous Tory ballots, predecessors Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May both
ultimately resigned despite narrowly winning their own votes, deciding that their premierships were terminally damaged.Rebuild trustJohnson
the offing as Britain contends with its worst inflation crisis in generations.But the scale of Tory disunity was exposed in a blistering
which is due by 2024.Ex-cabinet member Jeremy Hunt, who lost to Johnson in the last leadership contest in 2019 and is expected to run again
by-elections this month, one of them in a previously rock-solid Conservative seat.That is focusing the minds of Tory lawmakers, who fear
their own seats could be at risk if Johnson leads them into the next election, which is due by 2024 at the latest.In a snap poll by Opinium
Monday of 2,032 people, 59 percent of respondents said the Tories should ditch him as leader.Among Conservative members, 42 percent want MPs
to fire Johnson, according to another poll by YouGov.Johnson was booed Friday by sections of an ardently patriotic crowd gathered outside St
national occasion reportedly marked a turning point
Some said they had held back on public criticism of Johnson until after the jubilee.But cabinet ally Jacob Rees-Mogg dismissed the booing as
backbench committee of Conservatives which oversees party challenges, had earlier confirmed that the threshold of 54 Tory lawmakers seeking
Covid lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street.Some ran late into the night, and one featured a drunken fight among staff, at a time when
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