Hmm, Thatcher and May resigned after much less of a drubbing- eventually. He is besmirching the Tory Party the longer he hangs on. And I'm not a Tory voter.
It couldn’t have been a better result for the opposition.
A totally wounded prime minister who leads a party that will undoubtedly now be at war and it will only be a few months after the by elections and standards committee that there will be another vote.
Boris Johnson wins confidence vote by 211 votes to 148 Sir Graham Brady, chair of the Conservative 1922 Committee, says 359 votes were cast. There were no spoilt ballots.
Confidence in Boris Johnson: 211
No confidence in Johnson: 148
That means more than 40% of Tory MPs voted against Johnson.